Cardiff’s longest running book club
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8pm, 12th Jan 2021 – In My Mind’s Eye by Jan Morris
Jan Morris, who passed away in November 2020, was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.
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8pm, 9th Feb 2021 – The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor
Resonant of the eerie tone and claustrophobic atmosphere of Stephen King at his best, The Chalk Man is a spine-chilling, dread-filled tale of a game turned nightmare.
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8pm, 9th Mar 2021 – Neverwhere (Illustrated) by Neil Gaiman
Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent. Over the years, various versions have been produced around the world. In 2016, this gorgeously illustrated edition of the novel was released in the UK.
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8pm, 13th Apr 2021 – A Girl is a Half Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride’s award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour.
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8pm, 11th May 2021 – The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other, exquisitely captured in Michele Hutchison’s translation.
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8pm, 8th Jun 2021 – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is…
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8pm, 13th Jul 2021 – The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M John Harrison
Shaw had a breakdown, but he’s getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor’s daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen. It’s not ideal, but it’s a life. Or it would be if…
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8pm, 10th Aug 2021 – A Oes Heddwas | Bloody Eisteddfod gan | by Myfanwy Alexander
Daf is a busy, conscientious and humane Police Inspector who knows his patch and does his best to protect and improve the lives of those who belong there and those who come in. In August 2015 the Welsh-speaking world did come to Meifod, near the small town of Llanfair Caereinion, and the author imagines what…
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8pm, 14th Sep 2021 – Black and British: A short, essential history by David Olusoga
A short, essential introduction to Black British history by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga.
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8pm, 12th Oct 2021 – Poor by Caleb Femi
What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because ‘you fit the description of a man’ – and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of…
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8pm, 9th Nov 2021 – The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II when women’s stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . . . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards…
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8pm, 14th Dec 2021 – The Mistletoe Murder by P.D. James
Playful and ingenious, shot through with narrative elegance and sly humor, The Mistletoe Murder is a treat for P. D. James’s legions of fans—and anyone who enjoys the pleasures of a masterfully wrought whodunit.
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