BookBar BookClub: My Friends with Hisham Matar

Sign up, receive your book in advance of the book club with plenty of time to read it, send in the questions and discussion points you'd like us to talk about, and join a vitual interview with the author, in which we'll discuss the book.
 
December's BookBar BookClub author is writer Hisham Matar, discussing his Booker Prize-longlisted novel My Friends.
 
Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.

Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind. 
 
Read a paperback copy of My Friends and and join us for a virtual interview with the author, Hisham Matar, on Tuesday 7th Janaury 2024 at 7pm.
 
If you are a member of the BookBar BookClub you'll be able to sign up to join us for an in-person discussion group. Watch out for a date to be announced soon. Members will be sent a link to sign up to the limited spaces.
 
Your ticket price includes a paperback copy of the book, as well as attendance at the virtual event. Buy a ticket to a single event for £18 or subscribe to the book club for £15 a month. 
 
Please note: We send out copies of the book at the same time each month, so our usual delivery time frame does not apply to the BookClub. You will receive an email when your copy has been dispatched or is ready for collection. Please visit our BookClub FAQs page for more details.
 
Due to the Christmas break, December's author interview and discussion will take place in January. Books will be available in advance as usual.