📚🚶Tonight's Book Club: Tales from Firozsha Baag
Join me on Zoom at 8-9pm to learn more about Rohinton Mistry's beautiful stories about life in 1960s-70s Bombay
Dear walking book clubbers,
It was a delight to begin our 2025 adventures with you in Regent’s Park and Hampstead Heath - thank you so much to everyone who came along and braved the freeeeeeezing cold to discuss this poignant book of Bombay stories. Almost everyone in the group gave Tales from Firozsha Baag a big thumbs up, with barely a handful feeling lukewarm and absolutely no thumbs down - so I feel it has a firm stamp of approval from the Emily’s Walking Book Club collective!
Many thanks to Lucy for baking the delicious cardamom biscuits for the Hampstead walk, and to Chief Book Fairy for this wintry photo.
If you missed the discussion and are intrigued to discover more about Rohinton Mistry’s debut book, the conversation continues THIS EVENING on Zoom:
Emily’s Zoom Book Club: Monday 20th November, 8-9pm, £1-15
Everyone is welcome, whether or not you’ve read the book.
Feel free to enjoy a glass of wine / bowl of pasta / some knitting etc. while you chat.
It is helpful if you can book via Eventbrite using the button below, and pay £1-15, but if you have difficulty connecting this way, please do just join directly using the link HERE, Meeting ID: 819 1129 0172 | Passcode: Mistry
Look out next Monday for the January edition of On My Reading Radar - with tips for more great books and other cultural highlights - to round off the first month of 2025.
February
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 the author of our March book!).
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