Full Circle Book Club
hosted by Eleonora Balsano

The Möbius Book
by Catherine Lacey

Culture | Thurs 18th Sept | 7:00-8:30 pm

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The book club begins at 7pm.

Join a new season of encounters around the latest works of contemporary fiction, in the company of other avid readers and our host Eleonora Balsano. 

The Möbius Book is a genre-bending story about breaking. Adrift in the winter of 2021 after a sudden breakup and the ensuing depression, the novelist Catherine Lacey began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a practice that eventually propagated fiction both entirely imagined and strangely true. She soon realized that she was writing about her relationship with faith. Through relationships, travel, reading and memories of her religious fanaticism, Lacey charts the contours of faith’s absence and re-emergence. A hybrid work across fiction and nonfiction, The Möbius Book troubles the line between memory and fiction with an openhearted defense of faith’s inherent danger.

Monthly meet up to discuss a great read, along with drinks & good company.

Open to everyone | Booking required

Bar open

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ADDITIONAL INFO 

FOOD & DRINK	EVENT SIZE	WHEELCHAIR ACCESS
Bar open with snacks	Small (~10)	Available on request

HOW TO WRITE A FILM SCORE

with Nigel Clarke

Culture / Salon | Fri 26th Sep | 6.30-8.30pm

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The speaker will start at 7pm.

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Join us for an evening with composer Nigel Clarke to unveil the creative process behind making music for the movies.

Nigel will show clips and illustrations from his soundtracks to stimulate discussion on the role of music in film and TV. He will also give a historical perspective on some of the great film scores of the past and spark conversation on this fascinating subject.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: 

Nigel Clarke studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Patterson, where he was awarded the Academy’s highest distinction, the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence. Clarke has previously held positions as Young Composer in Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Composition and Contemporary Music Tutor at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Head of Composition at the London College of Music and Media, Visiting Tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Associate Composer to the Young Concert Artists Trust,  Black Dyke Band, the Band of HM Grenadier Guards, Brass Band Buizingen, Middle Tennessee State University Bands, Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall and International Composer-in-Association to the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Clarke has also co-written film soundtracks to: Jinnah, The Little Vampire, The Little Polar Bear, The Thief Lord, Baseline, & Will and in 2006 was a co-nominee at `The World Soundtrack Awards’ in the `Discovery of the Year’ category. In 2008 Clarke was awarded the title of Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Salford.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

FOOD & DRINK	EVENT SIZE	WHEELCHAIR ACCESS
Bar & snacks	Medium (20-50)	Available on request

Full Circle Book Club
hosted by Eleonora Balsano

Heart Lamp

by Banu Mushtaq

Culture | Thurs 9th Oct | 7:00-8:30 pm

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The book club begins at 7pm.

Heart Lamp is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025. In 12 stories, author Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, championing women’s rights and protesting all forms of caste and religious oppression.  

Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well as India’s most prestigious literary awards.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer in the state of Karnataka, southern India. Winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 for Heart Lamp.

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ADDITIONAL INFO 

FOOD & DRINK	EVENT SIZE	WHEELCHAIR ACCESS
Bar open with snacks	Small (~10)	Available on request

Full Circle Book Club
hosted by Eleonora Balsano

On the Calculation of Volume I

by Solvej Balle

Culture | Thurs 6th Nov | 7:00-8:30 pm

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The book club begins at 7pm.

In the first part of Solvej Balle’s epic septology, Tara Selter has slipped out of time. Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday. She comes to know the shape of the day like the back of her hand – the grey morning light in her Paris hotel; the moment a blackbird breaks into song; her husband’s surprise at seeing her return home unannounced. But for everyone around her, this day is lived for the first and only time. As Tara approaches her 365th 18th of November, she can’t shake the feeling that somewhere underneath the surface of this day, there’s a way to escape.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Solvej Balle is a Danish author and publisher. She made her debut in 1986 with Lyrebird and went on to write one of the 1990s’ most acclaimed works of Danish literature, According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind. Following this, she disappeared from the spotlight, moving from Copenhagen to the small island of Ærø, where she founded her publishing house, Pelagraf. 

Nearly 30 years later, the first book of a planned septology, On the Calculation of Volume I, was self-published. Five books have been published in Danish so far, with translations underway, and it was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025. 

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ADDITIONAL INFO 

FOOD & DRINK	EVENT SIZE	WHEELCHAIR ACCESS
Bar open with snacks	Small (~10)	Available on request