Thursday | Book Club | Roman Road

Join us for the Thursday Book Club!

Dive into conversations about love, dating and modern relationships, share your thoughts on the book, and ask your burning questions. Then stick around for drinks, great vibes and plenty of time to mingle with fellow book-loving singles over meaningful (and flirty) conversation.

Come for the book chat, stay for the chemistry!

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ THE BOOK BEFORE ATTENDING!

Bàrd Books on Roman Road – 18th June!

Book of the month:

Book: Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh

"A triumph – an irresistible tribute to the agonies of adolescence – and also the funniest novel I’ve read in years" Sally Rooney. From an Observer Best Debut novelist,Fun and Games is a stunning debut move following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west coast of Ireland.

Seventeen-year-old John Masterson has no idea what he wants. It’s his last summer on the small island where he has grown up and he should be enjoying the weeks until his exam results come through. Instead, he’s working mind-numbing shifts at the local hotel and trying to keep his head down after his mother’s nude sext to another man was leaked to the whole island. As John joins the local senior football team, gets caught up in fights and parties, and embarks on a tentative relationship with his slightly older co-worker Amber that he feels both proud and ashamed of, he can almost pretend that this summer will last forever. But soon John must face up to the choices before him: to stay or leave, to stand out or fit in, and whether to love and let himself be loved, despite or perhaps because of, the flaws that make us all human.

Fun and Games is a darkly comic, beautifully crafted debut novel that is full of feeling both harsh and tender. It takes in social class and its firm borders, manhood and its frailties, family and, of course, love.

"Funny, sticky, touching and sincere – a Superbad for the Mayo millennial" Rónán Hession

BOOK AVAILABLE IN PERSON AT BÀRD BOOKS (341-343 Roman Road, E3 5QR) OR ONLINE HERE!

✍️ £15 Tickets, 25 female 25 male!

🥂 Drinks available from Bard Books who have a full bar!

Happy reading and we look forward to seeing you soon...

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