For July our booksellers were set the task of choosing a book with the theme of Travel. But this month we have decided to try something new and have a ‘book off’. For this, we will offer two different books, following our chosen theme, and run two book clubs around the shop. At the end, we will ask you whether you enjoyed your book and the book with the most positive votes will be the winner of our July book off.
Our first book is ‘To Walk Alone In The Crowd’ by Antonio Munoz Molina.
The second book choice is the classic ‘The Hobbit’ by JRR Tolkien.
To book your place please click here and we ask that you only select one title as both book clubs will run at the same time.
These book clubs will be held in the shop and not online (where we will be practicing covid safety measures throughout the book club).
About this books~
To Walk Alone In The Crowd:
Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis etrangerI want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a graceful swimming stroke. I want to remain astonished. Join Antonio Munoz Molina for a walk through Madrid, Paris, London and New York, where the past and the present live side by side in the literature of newspaper headlines, billboards, casual glances and overheard conversation.
This is the digital metropolis, captured in notebooks, recorded on the iPhone, where Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas de Quincey, Fernando Pessoa and Walter Benjamin step beside us, all of us writing the unfinished poem of the crowded city.
The Hobbit:
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End.
But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon... The prelude to The Lord of the Rings