Friday 13 June 2025 at  15:00 (Doors open 13:00)

Fuel your love of reading! Join our monthly Book Club to meet fellow bookworms, explore a diverse ranges of novels and share your thoughts over a cup of coffee in our cosy Café.

With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality. . . Chiang's rigorously imagined fantasia invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.

Tickets for each session are just £5. We are very pleased to be able to offer three free places per session to those on low income (to include that session's book).

The books are all available at the Barnes Book Shop who are kindly offering a 10% discount off each monthly book on production of your ticket for each session.

General Admission £5 Ticket 

Free ticket for those on low income. Includes book and hot drink. £0.00