Bookety Club
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Bookety Book Club is a monthly book club highlighting both new releases and backlist titles we love. Sign up to our newsletter to keep in touch with our monthly selection.
We host a monthly in person book club to discuss the book see our event and tickets below. Reading the book of the month is not essential, but prepare for spoilers.
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Nothing to My Name
Kangkang Li Kovacs1948, Zhoushan, China. Twelve-year-old Ah Xue watches her mother earn a living combing the hair of the wealthy women in their small fishing village, as reports of civil war and the rising Communist revolution grow closer to home.
Years later, Mimosa grows up in the shadow of her parents' struggles, while the looming tension of the Cultural Revolution threatens to pull her family apart.
And Fei, raised as a boy by the activist father she can't help but idolise, grapples with her identity in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Spanning four decades and three generations,Nothing to My Namebraids an unforgettable story of the ordinary women caught in the tides of societal upheaval, but bound by an insuppressible instinct to survive. From an astonishing new writer, it explores with remarkable tenderness the enduring repercussions of trauma, the search for stability in disorder, and the often contradictory nature of familial love.
Bookety Club Events
Jump online and chat with us each month! Next up: we're chatting Nothing to My Name will be on 29th of July at 7:30pm Tickets are essential as to keep numbers conversation friendly spaces are limited, and we’ll have next months book ready for purchase on the night! You don’t...
Your book club just got easier! Let us choose the book, prep the questions, and all you need to do is gather your friends. Each download includes: 10 curated discussion questions Our next month’s Bookety Club pick Reading tips and recommendations These questions explore themes, characters, writing style, cultural context,...
Come hang with us at Rhyme & Reason each month! It's a double book club: we're chatting The Children by Melissa Albert on 14th of July at 7pm Tickets are essential as to keep numbers conversation friendly spaces are limited, and we’ll have next months book ready for purchase on the...
Come hang with us at Rhyme & Reason each month! It's a double book club: we're chatting Nothing to My Name by Kangkan Li Kovacs on 11th of August at 7pm Tickets are essential as to keep numbers conversation friendly spaces are limited, and we’ll have next months book ready for purchase...
Previous Bookety Club Reads
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Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister – a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness and redemption. ell Danvers is barely keeping it together. She’s behind...
'A stunning novel' - Oprah Daily In the rolling farmland of America's Midwest, Gabriel Fisher is exceptional from the moment he is born, weighing in at an impossible eighteen pounds. He walks at eight months, possesses extraordinary athletic abilities and a gentleness that draws people and animals to him. Taken...
Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller and National Book Award longlisted A Burning. Set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other in this piercing and propulsive tour de force.In a near-future...
A completely unputdownable debut novel that tells the story of one family torn apart by secrets, prejudice and their own best intentions, for readers of Trespasses and Sorrow and Bliss One family torn apart by secrets, prejudice and their own best intentions. It's 2022, and Heron, an old man of...
‘Laura Bates explains how they built the future – and forgot to put women in it’ CAITLIN MORAN 'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND ‘All men must read this book if they have any interest in a truly just, fair and equal society’ ROBIN...
A sexy, romantic, queer, epic literary novel for all readers by the award-winning author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Green Dot. Books about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is one. Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd and friendless. Traumatised in their first year...
THE SECOND NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE GLOBAL MEGA-SELLER, MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace...So goes the family curse, long handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts. And now it's...