Well, the feed back from our last event was so good, we have another one for you! And not one, or two but THREE AUTHORS! Waterstones Piccadilly and The Post-Apocalyptic Book Club are very proud to present the Dark Societies, an evening with Julianna Baggott, Martine McDonagh and David Wingrove.
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he Post-Apocalyptic Book Club has been very priveledged of late and today we had the chance to talk to Alex Adams, author of White Horse. It is a very interesting addition to the post-apocalyptic genre and I cannot wait to read it! Continue reading
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Waterstones Piccadilly and the Post-Apocalyptic Book Club present Dark Societies, an evening with Naomi Wood author of The Godless Boys
“If you were forced to live with faith, or without, which would you choose? England. 1986. The Church controls the country, and all members of the Secular Movement have been expelled to the Island. On the Island, religion is outlawed. The Godless Boys is a book about faith, and life without faith; about love, and its absence. But above all, it’s about power, and how dangerous it can be to stand out from the crowd. Both violent and tender, it’s a remarkable debut, and clearly marks Naomi Wood as a name to note.”
A post-climate change world in the not-too-distant future is the claustrophobic setting for the debut novel I Have Waited, And You Have Come by Martine McDonagh.
We see Rachel’s life in North West England fall apart around her as she comes to grips with a possible stalker and environmental changes. I have had the pleasure of reading this book and it is both poignant and terrifying. The world Martine has created here is so vivid and real, it would be hard not to be moved by it. Continue reading
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On Tuesday 17th January, in a lovely little pub on the river Thames, the Post-Apocalyptic Book Club gathered after battling with the Victoria line to listen to the shortlisted entries of End it! and vote for a winner. Continue reading
We had 17 wonderful entries to the short story competition!
Thank you all so much for the effort and imagination you put into this. It was a pleasure reading them all and we had a very hard time shortlisting the entries for next week’s spoken word event.
So the lucky five (in no particular order)are: Continue reading
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The turnout for November’s meetup really surprised me. I expected everyone to groan and sigh like me when they saw the length of the book and the size of the text. (370 pages and very small). However, quite a substantial number of people ignored their gut instinct and read the book pretty much in it’s entirety. A couple gave up, a few didn’t finish and the clever one’s skipped the 1st half of the book to only read the second. Continue reading
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I am very pleased to announce the First Prize for our short story competition End It!
The winner will receive a place on Writing Science Fiction, a one-day intensive creative writing masterclass with the fantastic (and bestselling) SF author David Wingrove, courtesy of londonwritersworkshop.co.uk worth over £90. This will be a great opportunity to be taught basic skills, have all your questions answered and let your imagination run wild! Continue reading
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Running this book group has meant that I have come across some pretty weird and wonderful stuff. This comes under the weirdly wonderful! Continue reading
This is possibly one of the strangest things we have been to. In a dark basement underneath the Leicester Square Theatre, Sara Pascoe tells us of how she will be the only one to survive the upcoming apocalypse next year and how she intends to rebuild society with her lovely man with the cheeky little face – Dizzee Rascal. Yes, the apocalypse has infiltrated the world of Stand Up Comedy! Continue reading
