May Book Club/Writing Group Ticket

Our monthly book club and writing group will be on the following dates:

24th April

22nd May

19th June

You are welcome to come to both the writing group and book club or one or the other. Please don't be put off coming if you didn't finish the book, you can still join in the discussion or listen to others chat about it. 

We meet at 6:30 - 7:30 for a guided writing session with prompts, suitable for all levels of experience, you can use the time to work on an existing project or try something new. 

We then take a short 5-10 minute break before chatting about that month's book. The conversation is informal and everyone's perspective is welcome but the conversation will be guided, so that everyone has a chance to speak if they want to. There will be questions and prompts to get the conversation going if people are feeling stuck.

At the end of each session, we offer three books to choose from and those attending vote on our next month's book. We try to alternate between fiction and non-fiction so we keep our scope quite broad. 

If you want to join our whatsapp group, send us an email greyareabooks@gmail.com or DM us on instagram @greyareabooks, you will be the first to hear about our upcoming events. 

You can use BOOKCLUBMAY to get 10% off this month's book On Freedom - Maggie Nelson. We will be focussing on the first two chapters of On Freedom.

Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing “practices of freedom” by which we negotiate our interrelation with—indeed, our inseparability from—others, with all the care and constraint that entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion.

For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture—from recent art-world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis—is itself a practice of freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company. On Freedom is an invigorating, essential book for challenging times.