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
August: The Wedding People with Alison Espach
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The Wedding People is a brilliantly witty, tender novel about marriage, life and second chances. Two years after the divorce that plunged her into a spiral of depression, literature professor Phoebe checks into the Cornwall Inn, a hotel she has dreamed of visiting for years, with the intention of taking her own life. But when she arrives, she learns that the whole of the hotel has been booked for a week-long wedding and she is the only guest who isn't attending. When the bride gets wind of her plans, an unexpected turn of events ensues that will keep make you laugh and cry.
Read a paperback copy of The Wedding People and and join us for a virtual interview with the author, Alison Espach, on Monday 25th August at 7pm.
September: Godwin with Joseph O'Neill
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​September's BookBar BookClub author is with Joseph O'Neill on his novel, Godwin, the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African football prodigy who might change their fortunes.
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Godwin is a tale of family and migration, and an international adventure story that implicates the brothers in the beauty and ugliness of football, the perils and promises of international business, and the dark history of transatlantic money-making. As only he can do, Joseph O'Neill investigates the legacy of colonialism in the context of family love, global capitalism, and the dreaming individual.
Read a paperback copy of Godwin and and join us for a virtual interview with the author, Joseph O'Neill, on Thursday 25th September 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.​
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.​