BookBar is all about bringing people together through books. We know that half the fun of reading a book is discussing it with fellow readers afterwards over a glass of wine or cup of coffee.
BookBar's BookClub is created especially for that purpose. So we launched our virtual book club, which promises all the fun of the real thing, and some additional surprises. Receive a paperback book, watch a virtual interview with the author, and meet other members to discuss it each month.
Scroll down for this season's line up. Got questions? Visit our FAQs here.
upcoming bookclubs
October: Ungone with Hannah Patterson
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October's BookBar BookClub author is Hannah Patterson on her debut novel Ungone.
Eve is attempting to come to terms with her ageing mother, who has dementia and lives in a care home, and employs Erin, a total stranger, to visit the home and pretend to be her. The act has profound consequences, as all three women begin a process of doing, undoing and redoing, with complicated and ultimately necessary truths revealed about each of their lives.Ungone tells the story of a single decision—a deceptively simple thing—through which the fractured, multi-layered nature of identity and the self is both revealed and interrogated.
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Read a paperback copy of Ungone and and join us for a virtual interview with the author, Hannah Patterson, on Monday 27th October at 7pm.
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Your ticket price includes a paperback copy of the book, as well as attendance at the virtual event. Buy a ticket to a single event for £18 or subscribe to the book club for £15 a month. Sign up for our discussion group for an addition £5.​
November: Reward System with Jem Calder
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Julia has landed a fresh start as a chef at an up-and-coming city restaurant. Her ex-boyfriend, Nick, is flirting with sobriety and nobody else. Life should have started to take shape by now, but instead they're trying to make new versions of themselves, searching for a good answer to the question: 'What do you do?'
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Loved by Sally Rooney and Andrew O'Hagan, we're so excited to introduce you to Jem Calder's writing.
Read a paperback copy of Reward System and and join us for a virtual interview with the author, Jem Calder, on Monday 24th November at 7pm.
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​Your ticket price includes a paperback copy of the book, as well as attendance at the virtual event. Buy a ticket to a single event for £18 or subscribe to the book club for £15 a month. Sign up for our discussion group for an addition £5.​
December: The Party with Tessa Hadley
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On a winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, sisters Moira and Evelyn, on the cusp of adulthood, go to an art students’ party in a dockside pub; there they meet two men, Paul and Sinden, whose air of worldliness and sophistication both intrigues and repels them. Sinden calls a few days later to invite them over to the grand suburban mansion Paul shares with his brother and sister, and Moira accepts despite Evelyn’s misgivings.
As the night unfolds in this unfamiliar, glamorous new setting, the sisters learn things about themselves and each other that shock them, and release them into a new phase of their lives.
Read a paperback copy of The Party and and join us for a virtual interview with the author, Tessa Hadley, on Tuesday 6th January at 7pm.
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​Your ticket price includes a paperback copy of the book, as well as attendance at the virtual event. Buy a ticket to a single event for £18 or subscribe to the book club for £15 a month. Sign up for our discussion group for an addition £5.​