The aldeburgh bookshop Book Club
We meet on the second Monday of the month, in the shop. The Book Club is open to all - so feel free to come along. No prior book club experience necessary.
July 2025
Monday 14th July at 6 pm
Heart Lamp
Banu Mushtaq. Translated by Deepa Bhashti
Paperback, £13.99 (Special Book Club price)
Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize. Winner of an English PEN Award.
In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India's most prestigious literary awards.
Everyone welcome.
June 2025
Monday 9th June at 6 pm
Helen DeWitt
The English Understand Wool
Hardback novella, £11.99
A clever novella, revolving around the education of 17-year old Marguerite by her French mother on the rules of bon ton. Truth, love, beauty, trust, taste, respect.
‘Staggeringly intelligent’