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:
January – June 2022
January – Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour
February – Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
March – Maja Lunde’s The End of the Ocean
April – Ian McEwan’s Solar
May – Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees
June – Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future
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October 2022 – March 2023
October – Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s Bangkok Wakes to Rain
November – Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
December – Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
January – Richard Power’s The Overstory
February – Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind
March – Claire Vay Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus
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May 2023 – April 2024
Tuesday 2nd May – Octavia Butler – Parable of the Sower
Tuesday 6th June – Rob Hopkins – From What Is To What If – non-fiction
After then, we will have a break and start again in October:
Tuesday 3rd Oct – Ned Beauman – Venomous Lumpsucker
Tuesday 7th Nov – Bradley Somer – Extinction
Tuesday 5th Dec – Elizabeth Rush – Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore – non-fiction
Break in January
Tuesday 6th Feb – Joanne Stubbs – The Fish
Tuesday 5th March – Jessie Greengrass – The High House
Tuesday 2nd April – Rachelle Atalla – Thirsty Animals
Oct 2024 – April 2025
October 1st – Lisa Brideau – Adrift
November 5th – Eleanor Catton – Birnam Wood
December 3rd – E.J. Swift – The Coral Bones
February 4th – Mary Annaise Heglar – Troubled Waters
March 4th – Daniel J. Mooney – The 14th Storm
April 1st – Jenny Offill – Weather
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 Sarah know at Sarah.Robertson@uwe.ac.uk if you are intending to join, just so she has a rough idea of numbers). It takes place on the first Tuesday of every month from 7pm to 9pm.
For more details, visit: https://www.thisiswhyweread.com/book-clubs/
