Everyone is welcome at our Contemporary Fiction book club, where on the first Wednesday of every month we discuss a recently-published paperback novel. In March, we'll be delving into Flesh by David Szalay.

Date:
Thursday 7th May

Venue: 
Max Minerva's, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU

Time:
Doors at 18:30. Discussion at 18:45. Finish at 19:45.

Tickets:
Attendance for the book club is free, but if you could register your place through the website, it helps us to gauge numbers. 

If you would like to buy a copy of the book, you can order it through us and show up on the night. 

ABOUT Flesh

Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize

Through chance, luck and choice, one man’s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives. Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman – as his only companion. When a clandestine relationship begins between them, his life spirals out of control.

As the years pass, István moves from the army to the circles of London’s elite. His competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth win him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.