When does fear become more dangerous than the thing we are afraid of? Can our desire for safety end up destroying us? Who is the real enemy when fear takes control? Explore these questions and more at the next Read & Riff session on 27 November 2026. Read & Riff is a book club for […]
CIBCA Christmas Social Book Club 📚✨ Love books, good company and a bit of festive fun? Join us for our December Book Club with a Christmas twist! As always, we’ll be chatting about our latest reads, swapping books and sharing recommendations. This time, you’re also welcome to bring along a favourite poem to share with […]
Join us on Saturday 5th December, 16.00 at Ouky Douky Coffee to discuss White Nights by Dostoevsky. In the luminous summer nights of St. Petersburg, a lonely dreamer encounters a troubled young woman. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky’s “White Nights” unfolds as an intimate tale of four evenings that hover between hope and melancholy. Through shared confidences […]
Join us for another great evening of poetry. All languages are welcome!!! You can bring your texts, texts you like, translations, anything… and bring your friends!!! After @Scott, @Danielle, and @Willie, this month our MC will be @Julie!
Join us on Saturday 9th January, 16.00 at Ouky Douky Coffee to discuss In The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani. The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny–a passionate interracial love story between a Moroccan soldier who fought for France in World War II and a French woman […]
Join us on Saturday 6th February, 16.00 at Ouky Douky Coffee to discuss James by Percival Everett. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view • […]