📚🚶 The January Webcast
A little reading and chat about Tales from Firozsha Baag
Dear walking book clubbers,
I’m looking forward to getting out into the frosty parks and walking with you THIS FRIDAY AND SUNDAY (or, indeed, Zooming with you on Monday) to discuss Tales from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry, our first book of 2025. We meet rain or shine, and have even walked in hail and snow, so please make sure you check the weather forecast and come suitably attired!
Read on to find:
Full details and booking links for our January events.
My January webcast - a little video reading and chat about the book.
Details for February - speaking of which, the lovely people at Faber books are offering us 20% off their beautiful hardback Members’ Edition of the book, with the discount code ewbc20 HERE.
In case you missed last week’s newsletter with useful links and discussion points about the book, you can find it here. (I especially enjoyed listening to Rohinton Mistry on the BBC World Service’s Meridian - if you want just one link.):
Also, in case you’d like one of THESE - a rather beautiful illustrated ‘book lovers’ journal’, with contributions from various authors including Marian Keyes, David Nicholls, Mick Herron and Freya North - they are kindly giving us 25% off, if you use the discount code WALKING at checkout.
Our January Tales from Firozsha Baag events
Please note that for the benefit of your fellow walkers, you need to have read the book before coming along to a walking book club. If you’ve not read the book, you are very welcome to join the zoom instead.
Emily’s Regent’s Park Walking Book Club: Friday 17th January 12-1.45pm, setting off from Daunt Books, 84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW, £8-20
Emily’s Hampstead Heath Walking Book Club: Sunday 19th January, 11.30-1pm, setting off from Daunt Books Hampstead, 51 South End Road, NW3 2QB, £8-20
Emily’s Zoom Book Club: Monday 20th January, 8-9pm, £1-15
Buy Tales from Firozsha Baag from Daunt Books HERE and receive 10% off using the code WBC at checkout, or just tell them you’re in Emily’s Walking Book Club if you’re buying it in the shop.
The January Webcast
I hope you enjoy this rather rambling chat introducing the book - is it short stories, long stories, or indeed nearly a novel? - in which I talk about coldness and snow, sadness and change, neighbours and humour among other things. I also discuss and read from the story, ‘The Collectors’.
If you do like the webcast, I’d be grateful if you could like or comment on it over on YouTube so the algorithm knows we matter and more people can discover our books and book club. In case you’d like to see more of these little videos, you can find them about all our books from the past few years on my YouTube channel: @emilyrhodeswriter.
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus
Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about grief and love, loss and resilience in 1980s Japan. Each is emotionally piercing, while also offering a fascinating insight into a different culture. Kitchen was an instant bestseller when published in Japan in 1988 and then translated into English in 1993, putting it at the vanguard of today’s vogue for Japanese fiction.
Keen to know more? Do read THIS insightful review in the LRB by Penelope Fitzgerald (who is, of course our March author!).
In Regent’s Park: Friday 14th February, 12-1.45pm, setting off from Daunt Books, 84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW, £8-£20
On Hampstead Heath: Sunday 16th February, 11.30-1pm, setting off from Daunt Books Hampstead, 51 South End Road, NW3 2QB, £8-£20
On Zoom: Monday 17th February, 8-9pm, £1-£15
Buy Kitchen from Daunt Books HERE and receive 10% off using the code WBC at checkout, or just tell them you’re in Emily’s Walking Book Club if you’re buying it in the shop.
Buy the hardback Faber Members’ Edition of Kitchen HERE and receive 20% off using the code ewbc20.
Happy reading,
Emily