Artful by Peter David
May 15th at 4:30pm Pacific(Seattle)/7:30pm Eastern(Montreal)
Our virtual book club continues in May with the charming and engrossing “Artful” by Peter David, a marvelous re-imagining of Oliver Twist from the Artful Dodger’s perspective. Join us for lively discussion of this steampunk novel.
We host book club on zoom each session and it is free to attend. The link will get posted to the event page two hours before start time. For those who prefer, we also live stream to Facebook.
As always we encourage you to support your local library or independent book seller when procuring this novel.
Goodreads blurb:
Oliver Twist is one of the most well-known stories ever told, about a young orphan who has to survive the mean streets of London before ultimately being rescued by a kindly benefactor.
But it is his friend, the Artful Dodger, who has the far more intriguing tale, filled with more adventure and excitement than anything boring Oliver could possibly get up to. Throw in some vampires and a plot to overthrow the British monarchy, and what you have is the thrilling account that Charles Dickens was too scared to share with the world.
From the brilliant mind of novelist and comic book veteran Peter David, Artful is the dark, funny, and action-packed story of one of the most fascinating characters in literary history.
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