What we’re about
Have your family and friends ever accused your taste in books of being a bit...dark?
Do you secretly find it a little bit exciting imagining what would happen if society as we know it were to fall apart?
Are you used to choosing your footwear based on its suitability for 'when the zombies come'?
Then you're in the right place!
Join us for a friendly monthly discussion of post-apocalyptic, dystopian, and related genres of books. We will have some pre-set questions to help guide discussion, but also allow the conversation to flow.
We have been running since January 2024 originally on Facebook, and now exclusively on Meetup.com.
We meet once per calendar month in a central location to discuss a pre-set book that should be read/listened to in advance of the session. There is a charge of £2 per person, per session, to contribute towards the cost of Meetup.com platform costs.
Attendees must be 18 or older. Other than that, everyone is welcome to join.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Cheltenham PABC: It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over (160 pages)The Swan, Cheltenham, Cheltenham£2.00
As voted on in the June session, in August we will read It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken.
There is a nominal fee of £2 for each session from January 2025 onwards. This is to contribute to the cost of hosting the group on Meetup.com.
The payment link for August is here: https://monzo.me/devonedwards-joseph/2.00?d=August%20book%20club%20%F0%9F%93%9A&h=m0-iif
Feel free to arrive from 6.30pm if you'd like to meet people, get a drink, and have a chat before we start the book discussion at 6.45pm.
The expectation is that you will buy, borrow, or stream the book and read or listen ahead of the session, and then we will discuss it together.
You do not have to have finished the whole thing to attend, as long as you don't mind spoilers. :)
How to find us:
I have booked a table for us at The Swan under my name (Devon) - the bar staff will be able to direct you to it.
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Book description:"
The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known―where she loved and was loved.Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another. A tale for our dispossessed times, and one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love.
" - Cheltenham PABC: One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford (352 pages)The Swan, Cheltenham, Cheltenham£2.00
As voted on in the July session, in September for our final session together we will read One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford.
There is a nominal fee of £2 for each session from January 2025 onwards. This is to contribute to the cost of hosting the group on Meetup.com.
The payment link for September is here: https://monzo.me/devonedwards-joseph/2.00?d=September%20Book%20Club%20%F0%9F%93%9A&h=m0-iif
Feel free to arrive from 6.30pm if you'd like to meet people, get a drink, and have a chat before we start the book discussion at 6.45pm.
The expectation is that you will buy, borrow, or stream the book and read or listen ahead of the session, and then we will discuss it together.
This particular book is available for 'free' (From the 17th July 2025) as an audiobook if you have a Spotify premium subscription.
You do not have to have finished the whole thing to attend, as long as you don't mind spoilers. :)
How to find us:
I have booked a table for us at The Swan under my name (Devon) - the bar staff will be able to direct you to it.
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Book description:"
Kesta’s husband Tim was the last person to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. The country is now in a period of respite, the government seemingly having rounded up and disposed of all the infected.But Kesta has a secret . . .
Tim may have been bitten, but he’s not quite dead yet. In fact, he’s tied to a bed in her spare room. And she’s made him a promise: find a cure, bring him back.
A scientist by day, Kesta juggles intensive work under the microscope alongside Tim’s care, slipping him stolen drugs to keep him docile, knowing she is hiding the only zombie left. But Kesta is running out of drugs – and time. Can she save her husband before he is discovered? Or worse . . . will they trigger another outbreak?
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