Sunday Morning Book Club AKA Wreck-The-Book-Club

A fun element we're bringing to Sunday Morning Book Club is ‘Wreck-The-Book’ energy. What does that mean? Will this get me cancelled? Maybe - Essentially, I am encouraging you to write in the margins, to (gasp) dog ear the pages when you find a passage you want to remember - this will help you go back and find it easily. Crack the spine! It is your book; you do not have to do any of those things, but consider trying it - it is strangely liberating.

Light refreshments will be served. Please let us know of any dietary requirements you have by contacting us in store. Thank you!

This month we will be reading The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis (longlisted for The Booker Prize).

About the book:

Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects pre-cinema toys and instruments. The two of them embark on a series of dream-like conversations in the hospital corridors. Wilhelmina puts on a magic lantern show for Flora, leaving her spellbound. When things take an unexpected turn, Flora finds herself entrusted with an important mission. She returns to London, where she resumes her job polishing silver at a jewellery shop, and strikes up a strange friendship with Wilhelmina's son, Max. As Flora dips in and out of her imagination, she is increasingly aware it's not only the magic lantern that projects, and her perception of reality is subtly altered.

Praise for the Shadow of the Object:

'One of our boldest writers' Deborah Levy

'One of the most brilliant novelists working in English today' Garth Greenwell

'The politics of her prose is existential rather than anecdotal, as it was with Kafka's' Zadie Smith

'A subtle and courageous writer' Ali Smith

'Chloe Aridjis is crafting a poetics of the strange' TLS

If you have already purchased this book from us, or plan to, please use discount code SUNDAY5 to get your book club ticket for $10.

Contact the host of Sunday Morning Book Club: November