Dully's Very Own Book Club

The team at Goldie's and Gleebooks are delighted to invite you to the next meeting of Dully's Very Own Book Club!

Our next Book Club event is 7pm on Monday 2nd November 2026. Tickets are $29 per person, which includes a drink on arrival and snack.

This month we are reading John of John by Douglas Stuart, which is available at Gleebooks in Dulwich Hill.

We can't wait to see you there.

About the book:

John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.

While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled. John of John confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.

John of John was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026.