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New members are always welcome and may attend as and when it suits. Admission is free. The books are available at good bookshops and public libraries.
Silver and Gold Friends of the Centre receive an advance copy of our book club choices in the post each month.
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Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 6:30-7:30pm (online)
The Holy Innocents by Miguel Delibes, translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush. Book your spot.
Tuesday, 17 November 2026, 6:30-7:30pm (online)
The Village on the Edge of the World by Herta Müller, translated from the German by Kate McNaughton. Book your spot.
Looking for reading ideas? You will find great writing from all over the world in the books discussed at our past book clubs, listed below:
2026
So far this year, we have read:
- Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi - The Deserters by Mathias Énard
translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell - Not a River by Selva Almada
translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Annie McDermot - Forgottenness by Tanja Maljartschuk
translated from the Ukrainian by Zenia Tompkins - Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
translated from the Mandarin by Lin King.
- The Plains by Federico Falco
translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Jennifer Croft - Before the Queen Falls Asleep by Huzama Habayeb
translated from the Arabic (Palestine) by Kay Heikkinen - Jellyfish Have No Ears by Adèle Rosenfeld
translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman - Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse
translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls - There's No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes
translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein - There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem
translated from the French (La Réunion) by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint Loubert - The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
translated from the Japanese by Hadyn Trowell
- Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
translated from the Portuguese (Brazil) by Johnny Lorenz - The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa
translated from the Portuguese (Angola) by Daniel Hahn - Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga
translated from the French (Rwanda) by Mark Polizzotti - Things I Didn't Throw Out by Marcin Wicha
translated from the Polish by Marta Dziurosz - Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
translated from the German by Michael Hofmann - Greek Lessons by Han Kang
translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won - Kinderland by Liliana Corobca
translated from the Romanian (Moldova) by Monica Cure
- First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel - Abigail by Magda Szabó
translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix - My Pen is the Wing of the Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
translated from Pashto and Dari by various translators - The Leash and the Ball by Rodaan Al Galidi
translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder - Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel - Em by Kim Thúy
translated from the French by Sheila Fischman - Standing Heavy by GauZ'
translated from the French by Frank Wynne
- Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins - The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović
translated from the Slovene by Olivia Hellewell - Waiting for the Waters to Rise by Maryse Condé
translated from the French by Richard Philcox - Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk - The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter
translated from the French by Frank Wynne - Jasmine Days by Benyāmin
translated from the Malayalam by Shahnaz Habib - The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman
- Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee - Storm Birds by Einar Kárason
translated from the Icelandic by Quentin Bates - The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre - Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan
translated from the Russian (Armenia) by Lisa C. Hayden - At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis - The Perfect Nine: the Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
translated from the Gikuyu by the author - The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
translated from the Farsi by Anonymous
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Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou
translated from French (Congo) by Helen Stevenson -
Resistance by Julián Fuks
translated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Daniel Hahn -
Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
translated from German by Susan Bernofsky -
The Dregs of the Day by Máirtín Ó Cadhain
translated from Irish by Alan Titley -
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
translated from French by Tina Kover -
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison -
The Doll by Ismail Kadare
translated from Albanian by John Hodgson
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Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones -
Among the Lost by Emiliano Monge
translated from Spanish (Mexico) by Frank Wynne -
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans
translated from Dutch (Belgium) by David McKay -
My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
translated from Finnish by David Hackston -
The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada
translated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutanida -
Small Country by Gaël Faye
translated from French (Burundi) by Sarah Ardizzone -
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
translated from Arabic (Oman) by Marilyn Booth -
Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
translated from Arabic (Syria) by Leri Price -
The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti
translated from Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre -
At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong
translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell
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Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors
translated from Danish by Misha Hoekstra -
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenström
translated from Afrikaans by J.M. Coetzee -
Affections by Rodrigo Hasbun
translated from Spanish (Bolivia) by Sophie Hughes -
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov
translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield -
In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González
translated from Spanish (Colombia) by Frank Wynne -
Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong
translated from Chinese by Scott E. Meyers -
The Impostor by Javier Cercas
translated from Spanish by Frank Wynne -
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
translated from Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt -
Petite Fleur by Iosi Havilio
translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Lorna Scott Fox -
The Chilli Bean Paste Clan by Yan Ge
translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman
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A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen -
The Evenings by Gerard Reve
translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett -
K by Bernardo Kucinski
translated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Sue Branford -
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada
translated from German by Susan Bernofsky -
Fish Have No Feet by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
translated from Icelandic by Philip Roughton -
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Megan McDowell -
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
translated from Portuguese (Angola) by Daniel Hahn -
Ghachar Gochar by Vivek Shanbhag
translated from Kannada by Srinath Perur -
The House with the Stained-Glass Window by Zanna Sloniowska
translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones -
The Queue by Basma Abdel Azizm
translated from Arabic (Egypt) by Elisabeth Jaquette
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The Vegetarian by Han Kang
translated from Korean by Deborah Smith -
Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada
translated from German by Allan Blunden -
Signs preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
translated from Spanish (Mexico) by Lisa Dillman