Book Club

Intro to Book Club

In early 2020, when the UK went into lockdown, I came up with a reason to connect with a group of amazingly intelligent and insightful female frien...

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

A New York Times Best Seller and TIME Book of the Year. A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a...

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Pulitzer Prize winning, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to...

Miseducation of Evie Epworth Book Review

The Miseducation of Evie Hepworth by Matson Taylor

Sixteen year-old Evie Epworth stands on the cusp of womanhood. But what kind of a woman will she become?...Moving, inventive and richly comic, The ...

Who They Was by Gabriel Krouze

This is a story of a London you won’t find in any guidebooks. This is a story about what it’s like to exist in the moment, about boys too eager to...

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America d...

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

This first Earthseed novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. If you were glued to The Han...

The Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future by David Wallace Wells

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching th...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until...

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

For years, rumours of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase A...

The Plague by Albert Camus

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustr...

Nine Perfect Strangers by Lianne Moriarty

Nine perfect strangers, each hiding an imperfect life. A luxury retreat cut off from the outside world. Ten days that promise to change your life.B...