Join us as we dive into the world of Maddie in Jessica George's debut novel, Maame. Set against the vibrant backdrop of London, we follow Maddie—a protagonist navigating life's complexities and seeking her place.
Sundays Are For Book Club!
Breanne McIvor, the author of The God of Good Looks, will be chatting on the RWL verandah Sunday, June 25.
Breanne will be joining us on Google Meet and will be talking to us about her latest book The God of Good Looks, her inspiration, the reception of her work, and what it’s like publishing while based in the Caribbean.
You can join the conversation on Google Meet, or if you’re in Kingston and up for meeting in person, you can join our lyme at one of our member’s homes. (Limited spaces available for in-person lyme)
Book Club Discussion: Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Dr Sabrina Strings
Book Club Discussion: 30 Things I Love About Myself
Long Overdue meetup in nature with Rebel Women Lit
Book Club Meetup: Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi
Book Club Meetup: Things I Have Withheld
Book Club Meetup: Black Cake
Book Club Meetup: Sula
Book Club Meetup: His Only Wife
Book Club Meetup: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
Book Club Meetup: The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies
Book Club Meetup: These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
Book Club Meetup: Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
Book Club Meetup: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Book Club Meetup: At the Full and Change of the Moon by Dionne Brand
Book Club Meetup: Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
Book Club Meetup: Popisho by Leone Ross
Book Club Meetup: Augustown by Kei Miller
Book Club Meetup: My Fishy Step-Mom by Shakirah Bourne
Book Club Meetup: All About Love by bell hooks
Book Club Meetup: Polar Vortex
Join us for book club to chat about Unraveling by Karen Lord
Bob Marley has just died, the Emperor Haile Selassie has been brutally murdered, the armed gangs of Kingston are at war and the murder rate soars. Packed with the stories of both the living and the dead, Marcia Douglas still manages to celebrate the endurance and wondrous creative humanity of Jamaica's people.
Join us for book club to chat about this book!
Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman, lives in hip San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five, she is in good health and makes the most of it, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche, chatting to strangers, and recollecting characters from her favourite novels
Join us to discuss this novella!
Book Club Meetup for The Girl with the Hazel Eyes
July’s Book Club Meetup! From headless schoolgirls to talking food and threesomes, pretty much anything can happen in these short stories. Ranging in form from flash fiction to intense psychological drama, magical realism, horror and erotica, the stories can be serious, too.
Two sisters are suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Barbados to live with their grandmother, in Naomi Jackson's stunning debut novel This lyrical novel of community, betrayal, and love centers on an unforgettable matriarchal family in Barbados.
