BookBar BookClub: Deviants with Santanu Bhattacharya
Sign up, receive your book in advance of the book club with plenty of time to read it, send in the questions and discussion points you'd like us to talk about, and join a virtual interview with the author, in which we'll discuss the book.
January's BookClub pick is Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya.
A bold, electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the currents of their times.
Vivaan, a teenager in India’s silicon plateau, has discovered love on his smartphone. His parents know he is gay, and their support is something Vivaan can count on, but they don’t know what exactly their son gets up to in the online world. For his uncle, born thirty years earlier, things were very different. Mambro’s life changed forever when he fell for a male classmate at a time, and in a country, where the persecution of gay people was rife under a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality. And before that was Mambro’s uncle Sukumar, a young man hopelessly in love with another young man, but forced by social taboos to keep their relationship a secret at all costs. Bold and bracing, intimate and heartbreaking, Deviants examines the histories we inherit and the legacies we leave behind.
Read a paperback copy of Deviants, listen to a virtual author talk, and meet with other BookClub members to discuss the book.
Your ticket price includes a paperback copy of the book, as well as access to 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 additional £5 (including a drink).
Read a paperback copy of Deviants and and watch a virtual interview with the author from 7pm on 27th January 2026.
If you are a member of the BookBar BookClub you'll be able to sign up to join us for an in-person discussion group at our bookshop and social space. Members will be sent a link to sign up to the limited spaces. The dates for January's discussion groups are:
Islington: 4th February, 6:30-7:30pm
Chelsea: 5th February, 6:30-7:30pm
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.
If you are a member of the BookBar BookClub you'll be able to sign up to join us for an in-person discussion group. Watch out for a date to be announced soon. Members will be sent a link to sign up to the limited spaces.
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.
Please note: We send out copies of the book at the same time each month, so our usual delivery time frame does not apply to the BookClub. You will receive an email when your copy has been dispatched or is ready for collection. Please visit our BookClub FAQs page for more details.
