Amsterdam Book Club

"Cleo, a young British painter in New York, meets Frank, an older self-made success whose life is full of everything hers lacks. Their impulsive marriage promises freedom, stability and a new start, but it soon reshapes both their lives and pulls everyone around them into the fallout."

🕒 HOW IT WORKS
This is a relaxed, social meetup where readers come together to chat about our current book — no spoilers are off-limits! There are no formal rules — just good company, friendly conversation, and plenty of bookish tangents.

🤍 RSVP CONTRIBUTION
To help keep spots fair and meetups well-organised, we ask for a €5 RSVP confirmation for this meetup. Your RSVP includes one drink at the venue.

"After art school leaves him broke and uncertain, John-Calum returns to the windswept Isle of Harris and the croft where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his deeply religious father John, a sheep farmer and weaver, as questions of faith, family, identity and desire begin to strain their fragile community."

🕒 HOW IT WORKS
This is a relaxed, social meetup where readers come together to chat about our current book — no spoilers are off-limits! There are no formal rules — just good company, friendly conversation, and plenty of bookish tangents.

🤍 RSVP CONTRIBUTION
To help keep spots fair and meetups well-organised, we ask for a €5 RSVP confirmation for this meetup. Your RSVP includes one drink at the venue.

We’re heading to Amsterdam's Oude Lutherse Kerk for an evening with Booker Prize-winning author Douglas Stuart, presented by Athenaeum Boekhandel and SPUI25.

Best known for Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo, Stuart will discuss his new novel John of John, about a young man returning from art school to his family’s windswept farm, where he finds himself caught between the life he left behind and the person he has become. It’s a story of family, faith, identity and belonging.

🕒 HOW IT WORKS
We’ll meet at De Brabantse Aap (📍Spui 30, 1012 XA Amsterdam) at 19:00 for a pre-talk drink before heading to the Oude Lutherse Kerk for the event, which begins at 20:00.

"Land is set on a remote Irish peninsula in 1865, where Tomás and his young son Liam are helping map a country still marked by the Great Hunger. But after an unsettling encounter, Tomás begins to unravel, leaving ten-year-old Liam to finish the work and find a way home."

🕒 HOW IT WORKS
This is a relaxed, social meetup where readers come together to chat about our current book — no spoilers are off-limits! There are no formal rules — just good company, friendly conversation, and plenty of bookish tangents.

🤍 RSVP CONTRIBUTION
To help keep spots fair and meetups well-organised, we ask for a €5.50 RSVP confirmation for this meetup. Your RSVP includes one drink at the venue.

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RSVP fees are non-refundable once paid, as spots are limited and planned with the venue. If Amsterdam Book Club cancels or reschedules the meetup and you can no longer attend, your fee will be refunded.