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Book for August is The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.

Next meeting will be on the 7th of August in the Effra Social from 7.30ish.

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We’re honoured to welcome renowned journalist and SOAS President Zeinab Badawi for the launch of the new African History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research✨

🗓️ 14 Oct 2025
🕠 5:30–7:30 pm
📍 Hybrid: Zoom & Senate House, London

All welcome and free, register here: shorturl.at/vyAMN
September 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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July 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Book for August is The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.

Next meeting will be on the 7th of August in the Effra Social from 7.30ish.

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July 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Interesting thread given that our current book is about a Fraud
The Salt Path has never appealed to me. Redemptive memoirs are really not my thing.

But if Penguin had pitched it as an audacious heist getaway story...
July 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The Salt Path has never appealed to me. Redemptive memoirs are really not my thing.

But if Penguin had pitched it as an audacious heist getaway story...
July 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Book for July is The Fraud by Zadie Smith - meeting on Thursday the 10th of July in the Effra Social from 7.40ish #bookgroup #brixton #bookclub #booksky brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/the...
The Fraud
Contender for book of the year? Lots of discussion about Disgrace by JM Coetzee. Book for next time is The Fraud by Zadie Smith - meeting on Thursday the 10th of July in the Effra Social from 7.40ish....
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June 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Need a bit of focus time for reading? bookmark this page brixtonbookgroup.com/make-time-fo... and it'll count down 30 minutes for some uninterrupted book time..
#booksky
Make time for reading..
30:00 We all need a moment to read - so take a while and stop scrolling. For book suggestions you can check out everything we've ever read.
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May 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I think I need to do a post that will generate arguments for it do feed the algorithm better on the other social media places. #booksky
May 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Our next book is The Awakening by Kate Chopin - and we’re meeting on Thursday the 8th of May in the Effra Social brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/the... #bookgroup #booksky
The Awakening
We had a packed meeting to discuss The Picture of Dorian Gray, with a few mixed feelings about the book - but perhaps there's only thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not bei...
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May 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
………….and the Brixton Book Group long read book has been chosen! It’s a 11.22.63 by @stephenking.bsky.social who no doubt will now follow us just to see what the resulting book inspired doodle will be. #booksky #bookgroup #bookclub
March 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Our April book is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and we will be meeting on Thursday 10th in the Effra Social from 7.30ish. Join us or read along! #booksky #bookclub #bookgroup
March 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Time to think about our long read again - to be chosen at our next meeting, but what would you nominate as your best book with many pages? #bookgroup #bookclub #booksky
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
How to stop mindless scrolling and read more books! Simple just sign up to get updates on brixtonbookgroup.com to find out what we’re reading and read along with us. We have book group members in locations all over the world, including Norwich. #bookclub #bookgroup #bookstagram #mindfulness #booksky
March 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The world needs change. Start with water.

#ChangeStartsWithWater
March 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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We’re currently running a competition where the winner will get £50 store credit to spend at Gosh! To enter, simply follow us on Bluesky (if you're seeing this, then there's a good chance you already do)! We’ll be drawing the winner next week on Friday 14th March, so make sure to follow us by then.
March 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Where do you buy your books? We’ve picked hundreds of books over the 20 years Brixton Book Group has been running. Tag your favourite book shop in the comments. #bookgroup #bookclub #books #bookshops #booksky
March 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Post a picture of the top right corner of the book you are currently reading.
March 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The @thebookerprizes.bsky.social longlist - predictions?
A Leopard-Skin Hat
On a Woman's Madness
Heart Lamp
Perfection
Eurotrash
Under the Eye of the Big Bird Hunchback
Small Boat
Reservoir Bitches
Solenoid
There's a Monster Behind the Door
On the Calculation of Volume
The Book of Disappearance
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We’re reading The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski meeting on the 20th of March in the Effra Social from 7.30ish #brixton #bookgroup #bookclub brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/the...
The Emperor
We had the busiest meeting of the year so far, with 47 people turning up to chat about billionaires escaping the grim reality of an apocalypse in the opulent luxury of a grand hotel. Termush had a mix...
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February 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
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February 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Have you checked in to the hotel Termush yet? You have a little more time to live out the apocalypse in opulent luxury as our meeting to discuss this classic is now on the 20th of Feb 📚
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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My pitch won 😃. Endless January is the right time to read dystopian/post apocalyptic books I think.
January 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Our first book for the new year is Termush by Sven Holm- a post apocalyptic story about wealthy elites escaping a burning world in a fancy hotel brixtonbookgroup.com/meetings/ter...
Termush
A big turnout for the new year to chat about Brighton Rock and Cuddy. Sadly Pete your book group admin couldn't make this one, but thank you to Miles for stepping in and doing the doodle. Book for nex...
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January 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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New ‘Winter Reading’ episode up now. Books by Jeffrey Renard Allen, John Bowen, Mark Bowles, Rob Cohen, Tim Robey, Sally Rooney, Bobby Short, Zadie Smith, Adelle Stripe, Moon Unit Zappa, with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social. 📚
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230. Winter Reading 2025 — Backlisted
Happy new year! We kick off 2025 - and Backlisted's tenth anniversary year - with our traditional Winter Reading episode, in which Andy, John and Nicky recommend a selection of favourite books to see ...
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January 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM