Join us for the launch of our new Books & Bagels reading circle.
Led by Naomi Grant, the group will meet once a month to explore, discuss and debate a range of fiction and non-fiction texts of your choice.
Accompanied by delicious free bagels, everyone is welcome!
Naomi Grant is an artist and teacher living and working in London. She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class degree in English before joining the Masterclass Programme at the Jerusalem Studio School in Israel. Following this, she completed the Postgraduate Programme at the Royal Drawing School in London. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.
15 January: The Safekeep
The group have chosen The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden for the session on 15 January.
It’s 15 years since the Second World War and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the conflict is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel’s life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel’s doorstep-as a guest, there to stay for the season…
The Safekeep won the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.