QWord book group & Christmas meal: "Bookshops & Bonedust" (organised by QStory)

Our final reading prompt of 2024 is “a cosy book” and we’ve chosen Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree. Read on for the blurb!

We’ll be meeting earlier in the month than usual (due to Christmas) and to get into the festive spirit, we will also be having a meal from Zapato’s Christmas menu together. We have booked a table for this, please let us know ASAP if you would like to join us and haven’t already told us, so that we can amend our booking as necessary.

If you would like to join us, please send in your choices from the Christmas menu ASAP:
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There will be a selection of sharing starters, and you can either choose to have a main for £21.50 or a main and pudding for £26.50 (you can always choose to add a pudding on the night if you can’t decide in advance). If you would like to join us but order from the ordinary menu or just have a drink, please get in touch and we will see what we can do.

About this month's book:

Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she’s packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk – so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it. What’s a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?

Spending her hours at a struggling bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted. Even though it may be exactly what she needs. Still, adventure isn’t far away. A suspicious traveller in grey, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.

Sometimes, right things happen at the wrong time. Sometimes, what we need isn’t what we seek. And sometimes, we find ourselves in the stories we experience together...

About QWord:

QWord is a book group for local LGBTQIA people, run by QStory Northampton. We read and discuss literature with queer themes and/or written by LGBTQIA authors. The group was originally founded in 2011 and came under the QStory umbrella in 2021. We meet monthly and read a wide range of books, including novels, short stories, graphic novels and poetry, chosen by our members. New members are always welcome and you don’t need to be an experienced literary critic to come along!

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