Love literature and want to read more about the climate? This book club gives you the perfect opportunity to discuss a variety of contemporary novels that engage with the changing climate. Engaging with world literature, from science fiction to realism, we will discuss the challenges of climate change and questions of hope, adaptability, and resilience as they emerge across these novels:

• Tuesday 2^nd May – Octavia Butler – Parable of the Sower
• Tuesday 6^th June – Rob Hopkins – From What Is To What If – non-fiction

After then, we will have a break and start again in October:

• Tuesday 3^rd Oct – Ned Beauman – Venomous Lumpsucker
• Tuesday 7^th Nov – Bradley Somer – Extinction
• Tuesday 5^th Dec – Elizabeth Rush – Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore – non-fiction

Break in January

• Tuesday 6^th Feb – Joanne Stubbs – The Fish
• Tuesday 5^th March – Jessie Greengrass – The High House
• Tuesday 2^nd April – Rachelle Atalla – Thirsty Animals

The book club is developed and led by Dr Sarah Robertson (UWE English Literature), whose current research is on climate change and literature.

The book club is free of charge and you can join by dropping-in with no prior booking (though it would be great if you could let us know at hello@theoldlibrary.org.uk if you are intending to join, just so we have a rough idea of numbers).

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