September Book Club - Just A Little Dinner

SOLD OUT please click here for our waitlist form. If we get enough of a waitlist we will be adding a second date. If you would just like the book with the book club discount, fill in the waitlist or pop by the shop.

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Join us to discuss Just A Little Dinner at our September translated fiction book club! 

Written by Cécile Tlili and translated by Katherine Gregor

When: 25/9/25 18:00 start 

Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL

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You can order the book here to pick up from the shop. (Scroll to the bottom of this page)

Just a Little Dinner - £12.99 

BOOK CLUB DISCOUNT 10% off - £11.69

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.

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:

In tired, hot Paris at the end of August, a group of friends, who’d rather still be at the sea, meet for a dinner in one couple’s apartment. 

Taking us behind the shutters of the Sixth Arrondissement, with a cast of characters that both delight and repel, fractured relationships, manipulation, bad behaviour and desperation are all laid bare in this very contemporary take on a Parisian huis clos story.  

What starts as just a little dinner ends up having monumental consequences for everyone.

 “Full of soul, with characters who are real, relatable and flawed. I loved Just a Little Dinner.” Ceci Browning, THE TIMES

“In the cinema and the theatre, feasts that descend into disaster are a distinctly French speciality. Cécile Tlili manages to reinvent this tradition with her very first novel.” PARIS MATCH

“A hurtful and sadly all-too commonplace human comedy, wonderfully described by an author we will hear a lot more from.” Laurance Caracalla, LE FIGARO LITTÉRAIRE

“The dramatic tension between the two couples is electrifying as the evening takes its unexpected turns.” LE MONDE DES LIVRES

About the author:

CÉCILE TLILI graduated from MINES Paris Tech and held several important positions at French energy company Engie before founding an alternative school for neuroatypical children. Un simple dîner is her first novel and is being published in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan

About the translator:

KATHERINE GREGOR is a literary translator from Italian and French. She translates fiction, non-fiction and plays and recent work includes Ashes in the Snow by de Oriana Ramunno, Bridges of the World by Giancarlo Ascari and Pia Valentinis, The Memory of the Air by Caroline Lamarche (winner of an English PEN Translates Award), Vanda by Marion Brunet and The Whisperer's Game by Donato Carrisi.