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We’re honoured to welcome renowned journalist and SOAS President Zeinab Badawi for the launch of the new African History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research✨
🗓️ 14 Oct 2025
🕠 5:30–7:30 pm
📍 Hybrid: Zoom & Senate House, London
All welcome and free, register here: shorturl.at/vyAMN
Just to update we now have a new date! THURSDAY 21st AUGUST
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Brixton Book Group voting doodle showing two lions holding a sugar spoon and a sugar cane along with the names of the books Brixton Book Group voted for
Book for August is The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.
Next meeting will be on the 7th of August in the Effra Social from 7.30ish.
brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/the...
Interesting thread given that our current book is about a Fraud
The Salt Path has never appealed to me. Redemptive memoirs are really not my thing.
But if Penguin had pitched it as an audacious heist getaway story...
Book for July is The Fraud by Zadie Smith - meeting on Thursday the 10th of July in the Effra Social from 7.40ish #bookgroup #brixton #bookclub #booksky brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/the...
Need a bit of focus time for reading? bookmark this page brixtonbookgroup.com/make-time-fo... and it'll count down 30 minutes for some uninterrupted book time..
#booksky
Out book for June is Disgrace by Jim Coetzee brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/dis... #booksky #bookgroup #bookclub
Read books and be kind drawn text on a white background
I think I need to do a post that will generate arguments for it do feed the algorithm better on the other social media places. #booksky
Our next book is The Awakening by Kate Chopin - and we’re meeting on Thursday the 8th of May in the Effra Social brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/the... #bookgroup #booksky
Anything by John Wyndham - very enjoyable for adults too but Chocky stands out as a good one
………….and the Brixton Book Group long read book has been chosen! It’s a 11.22.63 by @stephenking.bsky.social who no doubt will now follow us just to see what the resulting book inspired doodle will be. #booksky #bookgroup #bookclub
Drawing of Hailie Selasse sat behind a desk with unplugged telephones. Details of the vote written underneath but the details you need are: Book for next time is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and we will be meeting on Thursday 10th April in the Effra Social from 7.30ish. Runners up included The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Circe by Madeline Miller, Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, This House of Grief by Helen Garner, Main Character by Lizzie Franier and the Book of Ebenezer le Page by GB Edwards.
Our April book is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and we will be meeting on Thursday 10th in the Effra Social from 7.30ish. Join us or read along! #booksky #bookclub #bookgroup
The Brixton Book Group long read will be chosen at the next meeting - drawing with a very long book with many pages
Time to think about our long read again - to be chosen at our next meeting, but what would you nominate as your best book with many pages? #bookgroup #bookclub #booksky
How to stop mindless scrolling and read more books
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Picture of a space rocket - attach phone to rocket and fire into space
How to stop mindless scrolling and read more books! Simple just sign up to get updates on brixtonbookgroup.com to find out what we’re reading and read along with us. We have book group members in locations all over the world, including Norwich. #bookclub #bookgroup #bookstagram #mindfulness #booksky
The world needs change. Start with water.
#ChangeStartsWithWater
We’re currently running a competition where the winner will get £50 store credit to spend at Gosh! To enter, simply follow us on Bluesky (if you're seeing this, then there's a good chance you already do)! We’ll be drawing the winner next week on Friday 14th March, so make sure to follow us by then.
Will hold you to pitching that!
Where to buy books (a guide) *add your favourites in the comments
Drawing of a friendly book shop with the caption ‘from places like this’
Drawing of a warehouse with a logo that looks like Amazon labelled ‘Longest river’ and ‘Mega book store’ with the caption ‘not like this’
Where do you buy your books? We’ve picked hundreds of books over the 20 years Brixton Book Group has been running. Tag your favourite book shop in the comments. #bookgroup #bookclub #books #bookshops #booksky
Yes!
Post a picture of the top right corner of the book you are currently reading.
The @thebookerprizes.bsky.social longlist - predictions?
A Leopard-Skin Hat
On a Woman's Madness
Heart Lamp
Perfection
Eurotrash
Under the Eye of the Big Bird Hunchback
Small Boat
Reservoir Bitches
Solenoid
There's a Monster Behind the Door
On the Calculation of Volume
The Book of Disappearance
We’re reading The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski meeting on the 20th of March in the Effra Social from 7.30ish #brixton #bookgroup #bookclub brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/the...
hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
Have you checked in to the hotel Termush yet? You have a little more time to live out the apocalypse in opulent luxury as our meeting to discuss this classic is now on the 20th of Feb 📚
My pitch won 😃. Endless January is the right time to read dystopian/post apocalyptic books I think.
Our first book for the new year is Termush by Sven Holm- a post apocalyptic story about wealthy elites escaping a burning world in a fancy hotel brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/ter...
New ‘Winter Reading’ episode up now. Books by Jeffrey Renard Allen, John Bowen, Mark Bowles, Rob Cohen, Tim Robey, Sally Rooney, Bobby Short, Zadie Smith, Adelle Stripe, Moon Unit Zappa, with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social. 📚
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/230
