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...

Milkman by Anna Burns

Winner of the Booker Prize 2018. In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an 18-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted attentio...

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

In his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize, Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrato...

Girl Woman Other Book Club Choice & Review

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Winner of the Booker Prize 2019. This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told...Follow a cast of twelve chara...

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. T...

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...