Cardiff’s longest running book club
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11th June 2024 – Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Mark Dunn’s book, Ella Minnow Pea, pushes literary conventions. Nevin Nollop left the islanders of Nollop with the treasured legacy of his pangram the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. But as the letters begin to crumble on the monumental inscription, the island’s council forbids the use of the lost letters and silence…
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8th August 2023 – The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
‘I loved every word’ – Malorie Blackman ‘Atta’s bold verse novel calls to its readers to find their own blazing, performative inner truth’ – Guardian WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen – then at university he finds his wings as a drag…
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11th July 2023 – This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
‘Beautifully believable and appallingly sad … One of the most acute, affecting and aphoristic novels of recent years … A hallucinatory and haunting vision.’ (The Guardian) This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s…
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