October Book Club - Clear

Join us this month to discuss Clear at our October book club! 

When: 29/10/26 18:00 start, doors open from 17:50

OR 31/10/26 10:00 start, doors open from 9:50

Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL

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You can order the book here to pick up from the shop. 

Clear - £9.99

Book club discount, 10% off - £8.99

Tickets to the book club are free but we would like you to register so that we can keep track of numbers. As it is a free event we would appreciate if you bought the book from us as that allows us to keep running events like this. However if you have a copy already feel free to sign up for just a ticket.

If you would like to book a place but you already have the book you can do that here.

Once you have signed up we will send you an email confirmation (this is separate to the automatic email from Shopify to confirm payment). We will then send an email when the book is ready to pick up. This may be included in the initial email if we already have the stock.

Translated fiction book club runs every other month, the months in between we have a general book club. 

About the book:

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs. The newcomer is John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister sent to evict Ivar and turn the island into grazing land for sheep. Unaware of the stranger’s intentions, Ivar takes him into his home, and in spite of the two men having no common language, a fragile bond begins to form between them. Meanwhile, on the mainland, John’s wife, Mary, anxiously awaits news of his mission.

Against the rugged backdrop of this faraway spot beyond Shetland, Carys Davies’s intimate drama unfolds with tension and tenderness: a touching and crystalline study of ordinary people buffeted by history and a powerful exploration of the distances and connections between us. Perfectly structured and surprising at every turn, Clear is a marvel of storytelling, an exquisite short novel by a master of the form.

About the author:

Carys Davies‘s first novel West won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Award, was Runner-Up for the Society of Author’s McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her short stories have been widely published and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2015. She lives in Edinburgh.

Accessibility:

We ask in our confirmation email if you have any access needs, we will do everything we can to accommodate them. If you would like to reach out before booking you can email us lily@bookspacecardiff.co.uk or use our contact form.

We are wheelchair accessible. We have a temporary ramp we can put out to get in over the small step and once inside the shop floor is even. If you want to find out more about how to get here, check out our about page.