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SUMMARY:The Feminist Book club with Kate Feld - FEBRUARY
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are delighted to announce that we are hosting the Feminist Book Club with facilitator Kate Feld. Taking place monthly\, this will be a space for people of all genders to discuss feminist books. In February\, we will be discussing The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan. \nTickets\nBook and ticket: £9.99\nTicket only: £3 \nAs always\, there are a limited amount of complimentary tickets available for those who need them. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597 365380. \nAbout the book \nHow should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart. Since #MeToo many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt tool. \nTo grasp sex in all its complexity – its deep ambivalences\, its relationship to gender\, class\, race and power – we need to move beyond ‘yes and no’\, wanted and unwanted. We need to interrogate the fraught relationships between discrimination and preference\, pornography and freedom\, rape and racial injustice\, punishment and accountability\, pleasure and power\, capitalism and liberation. We need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon. \nSearching\, trenchant and extraordinarily original\, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world\, animated by the hope of a different one.
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SUMMARY:The Book Club - Monday 24th February - ZOOM
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday\, 24th February\, 7-8pm. This month\, we are reading The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can buy a book and ticket here. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne of our booksellers will lead the book club\, and the group will be split up into smaller groups in breakout rooms to discuss the questions. A Zoom link will be emailed to ticketholders prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nFrom the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist\, a propulsive\, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing. \nEight translators arrive at a house in a forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the writer Irena Rey\, and they are there to translate her magnum opus\, Grey Eminence. But within days of their arrival\, Irena disappears without a trace. \nAbout the Book \nThe translators\, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author\, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient\, wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime moulds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets — and deceptions — of Irena Rey’s that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession\, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire\, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. \nThis hilarious\, thought-provoking second outing by award-winning translator and author Jennifer Croft is a brilliant examination of art\, celebrity\, the natural world\, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable\, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love\, destruction\, and creation in one of Europe’s last great wildernesses.
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SUMMARY:The Book Club - Wednesday 26th February - EVENING
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday\, 26th February\, 6pm – 7pm. This month\, we are reading The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can buy a book and ticket here. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne of our booksellers will lead the book club\, and the group will be split up into smaller groups in breakout rooms to discuss the questions. A Zoom link will be emailed to ticketholders prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nFrom the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist\, a propulsive\, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing. \nEight translators arrive at a house in a forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the writer Irena Rey\, and they are there to translate her magnum opus\, Grey Eminence. But within days of their arrival\, Irena disappears without a trace. \nAbout the Book \nThe translators\, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author\, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient\, wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime moulds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets — and deceptions — of Irena Rey’s that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession\, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire\, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. \nThis hilarious\, thought-provoking second outing by award-winning translator and author Jennifer Croft is a brilliant examination of art\, celebrity\, the natural world\, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable\, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love\, destruction\, and creation in one of Europe’s last great wildernesses.
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LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Book Club - Thursday 27th February - AFTERNOON
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday\, 27th February\, 2-3pm. This month\, we are reading The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can buy a book and ticket here. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne of our booksellers will lead the book club\, and the group will be split up into smaller groups in breakout rooms to discuss the questions. A Zoom link will be emailed to ticketholders prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nFrom the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist\, a propulsive\, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing. \nEight translators arrive at a house in a forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the writer Irena Rey\, and they are there to translate her magnum opus\, Grey Eminence. But within days of their arrival\, Irena disappears without a trace. \nAbout the Book \nThe translators\, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author\, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient\, wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime moulds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets — and deceptions — of Irena Rey’s that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession\, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire\, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. \nThis hilarious\, thought-provoking second outing by award-winning translator and author Jennifer Croft is a brilliant examination of art\, celebrity\, the natural world\, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable\, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love\, destruction\, and creation in one of Europe’s last great wildernesses.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-thursday-27th-february-afternoon
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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