Our next Monday book club is on 4th May when we’ll discuss The Names by Florence Knapp, which was chosen as a Book of the Year by the Guardian, Independent, and the Sunday Times who said 'I've just been blown away by the best debut novel in years . . . A genius idea for a book’.
Our next Thursday book club is on 14th May when we’ll discuss Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley. The book was chosen by the Sunday Times in their list of 100 Great 21st Century Novels, who praised it as “a fine-grained novel of friendship, loss and jealousy”.
Our next Monday book club is on 1st June when we’ll discuss The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin. The book is shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize and has been selected as a 2025 Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement and the Observer, among others. Salman Rushdie has described The Director as “a dazzling performance and a real page turner”, while the Wall Street Journal said that it’s “nothing short of brilliant”.
Our next Thursday book club is on 11th June when we’ll discuss The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha. The book was selected by the Guardian as a Paperback Highlight and featured on their Summer Reading list describing it as “a novel of ideas crossed with a juicy family saga, this state-of-the-nation snapshot of contemporary India wittily anatomises the battle for resources - environmental, financial, social - in a clash between ambitious daughters and complacent sons”.
Our next Monday book club is on 6th July when we’ll discuss winner of the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize, Hum by Helen Phillips. Chair of Judges, Arifa Akbar, described Hum as “a book that deals with love, community and family in the face of climate crisis, privilege and the age of AI” while fellow judge Jessie Greengrass said that it is “beautiful and intimate, this novel about the difficulties of love and care in a world which is increasingly mediated by technology is one I’ve found myself thinking about long after finishing the last page”.
