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8pm, 8th January – Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
A short, but (bitter?) sweet start to the year? Leïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron’s personal representative for the promotion of the French…
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8pm, 12th February – Blasu / The Seasoning by Manon Steffan Ros
For the first time, we’re offering the chance to read the book of the month in either Welsh or English. We’re excited to have a bilingual discussion and it’d be even better if you can devour both versions of this modern masterpiece. Peggy is eighty and the family are having a birthday party. Her son’s…
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8pm, 12th March – Bream Gives Me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg
After requests for cheerier tomes in 2019, you spoke and we hope we’ll deliver. This short-story collection is a rollicking laugh. Apparently… The fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright and New Yorker contributor Jesse Eisenberg. Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories is the whip-smart fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor and star of The Social Network, Jesse…
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8pm, 9th April – Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor by Dave Haslam *AUTHOR IN ATTENDANCE*
Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer and DJ Dave Haslam’s wonderfully evocative memoir. A lively, revelatory and gloriously well-written memoir of Dave Haslam’s life and work in some of the most interesting corners of contemporary culture. It’s a masterful insider account of life at the Hacienda, the rise of Madchester and the birth of…
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8pm, 14th May – Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She is the author of four previous novels: In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saffron and Broken Verses. In 1999 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature and in 2004 the Patras Bokhari Award –…
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8pm, 11th June – This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. His first book ‘This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor’ was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over a million copies. It has been translated…
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8pm, 9th July – The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a Sunday Times bestseller and New York Times Notable Book, translated into twenty-three languages), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life as a Russian Novel, Class Trip, Limonov (winner of the 2011 Prix Renaudot), The Mustache and, most recently, The Kingdom. On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean-Claude Romand was…
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8pm, 13th August – Ivon by Michael Aylwin *AUTHOR IN ATTENDANCE*
Michael Aylwin is a sports reporter for the Guardian and Observer. He lives in Southfields.” Ivon is A fast-moving sporting dystopia by one of the Guardian’s leading sportswriters. Full of ideas, action and dark humour. If this is the future, return me to the past…” –Richard Beard, novelist and director of the National Academy of…
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8pm, 10th September – Educated by Tara Westover
Recommended by Barack Obama, Antony Beevor, India Knight, Blake Morrison and Nina Stibbe. Shortlisted for the 2018 BAMB Readers’ Awards. Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because…
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8pm, 8th October – Factfulness by Hans Rosling
The perfect Christmas gift: a message of hope for our troubled times. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends – why the world’s population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty…
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8pm, 12th November – The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt
Patrick deWitt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. He was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and later lived in California and Washington state. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride – fighting, shooting,…
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8pm, 10th December – Blankets by Craig Thompson
“One of the greatest love stories ever written and surely the best ever drawn.” Joss Whedon Wrapped in the snowfall of a blustery Midwestern winter, Blankets is the tale of two brothers growing up in rural isolation, and of the budding romance between two young lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of…
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