Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Group

Every month after our doors have closed on a Sunday, we will meet in the bookshop to discuss a piece of SFF literature, curated by our booksellers Kate & Rhydian.

For our inaugural Science Fiction & Fantasy Reading Group, we will be discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Whether you’re a devoted Clarke fan already, or will be encountering her work for the first time, we’d love to have you!

We have plenty of copies of Piranesi available in the bookshop and you can redeem the cost of your voucher against one.

(Please note that we have a very limited amount of seats available for our reading groups — if for any reason your plans change, do let us know in advance so that we can offer the seat to the next person on the waiting list!)

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.

In his notebooks, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.

Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.

The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.