Join The Bondi Literary Salon, hosted by Lucy Pearson, for our first Book Club get-together of 2022! In our gathering, we will be discussing Ronan Hession's Leonard & Hungry Paul.

WHEN: Wednesday, 23rd of February, 2022, at Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore, this event will be hosted in-store so please arrive at 6:45pm for our prompt 7pm start.

TICKETS: Admission, $20.00 (excluding external fees). Your ticket includes a drink on arrival and nibbles on the evening.

A disarming novel that asks a simple question: Can gentle people change the world?

About Leonard and Hungry Paul

In this charming and truly unique debut, popular Irish musician Ronan Hession tells the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents and who are . . . nice. They take care of their parents and play board games together. They like to read. They take satisfaction from their work. They are resolutely kind. And they realize that none of this is considered . . . normal.

Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends struggling to protect their understanding of what’s meaningful in life. It is about the uncelebrated people of this world — the gentle, the meek, the humble. And as they struggle to persevere, the book asks a surprisingly enthralling question: Is it really them against the world, or are they on to something?

About Lucy Pearson

Lucy started her blog eight years ago while she was reading her way through the Top 100 BBC Reads and shortly after winning the inaugural Book Blogger of the Year Award at the London Book Fair in 2018 she joined forces with the team at Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore to launch the Bondi Literary Salon. Her favourite book is A Little Life and her favourite bookshop is (understandably) Gertrude & Alice. Read more about Lucy here, and visit her award-winning blog The Lit Edit here.

About Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore

Rated as one of the top 10 bookstores in the world by National Geographic, Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore is an oasis for writers, readers and coffee lovers. Books overflow from the shelves of their store, featuring a mix of new, second-hand, antiquarian and rare books. Stay a while & enjoy some home made chai, amazing coffee and unearth a book treasure or two. Read more about the bookstore's story here, and about the real Gertrude & Alice here.