September Book Club: The Overstory

Join us on the last wednesday of the month to discuss our favourites and new discoveries in contemporary fiction and occasionally some creative non-fiction too! Led by bookshop owner, writer and publisher, Cheryl Robson and Bushra Dunne, bookseller at Books on the Rise. 

Some of the titles we’ve already discussed include…’Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaoutar Adimi, and Pod by Laline Paull.

Book club members receive a 20% discount if you buy your book from our shop. This discount extends to all books if you continue to attend the book club!

This month we are reading The Overstory by Richard Powers!

This is the story of nine strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe… From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

A New York Times Bestseller & WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

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