Book Club: There are Rivers in the Sky 💧☁️

Whether you’re a true bookworm or simply seeking a motivation to get reading more often, the book club is a great place for conversation and meeting new people! Come and enjoy some interesting discussion alongside more relaxed chatter, with the book as the jumping off point.

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This time, we’ll be reading Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers In The Sky 💧☁️.

“An exquisitely constructed meditation on love, loss and memory” (Waterstones), we meet a Victorian child, a Yazidi refugee and a heart-broken hydrologist, their lives connected by a single drop of water, the Thames and Tigris rivers, and the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, dipping between the 19th century and the present day. 🏞️📖

The novel has received acclaim for it's "gorgeous writing" and was nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, touching on themes such as the environmental crisis, refugees and the power stories have to bring us together. 💙

The Centurion is a relaxed, elegant and spacious bar with comfortable seating and a quiet atmosphere, well-suited to literary conversations! 📕🍷

Converted from the historic first class lounge at Central Station 🚂✨, its luxuriant environs are situated at ground floor level, easily accessible, with public transport links aplenty nearby. If you’re feeling peckish there are various shops adjacent that you can pick up nibbles from.

This is an open session, so feel free to drop by at any time during the evening: we’re pretty easygoing ☺️.

Hope you can join us 📚!