Hi Readers, This will be the third meeting for 2019 of the Afro Reads Book Club for people from the African, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American communities. We will be discussing Augustown by Kei Miller.

Afro Reads Bookclub meets at 2.15 pm for a 2.30 pm start. Teas, Coffee, and biscuits are available for you to help yourself to. It is usual practice for Members to purchase and read the book in advance and then turn up for a guided discussion. Your host chairs the meeting bringing along a list of questions/ themes for discussion and everyone is given the opportunity to discuss the issues presented by the book. Readers are also encouraged to bring along their own questions but there is no pressure to do so. If you have not had the opportunity to complete the book that's ok also just come along and join in the discussion.

The book club usually meets every six weeks and the cost is £4 + booking fee per person via Eventbrite.

or £5 cash in person on the day.

Augustown by Kei Miller

WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE, and the HISTORICAL WRITERS AWARD

'Miller's storytelling is superb' SUNDAY TIMES

Augustown is a magical and haunting novel set in the underbelly of Jamaica.

One April day in Augustown, Jamaica. Ma Taffy, old and blind, sits in her usual spot on the veranda. No matter how the world tilts around her, come hurricane or riot, she knows everything that goes on in this small community. Which is why, when her six-year-old nephew returns home from school with his dreadlocks shorn, she realises that trouble won't be far behind. And so she tells him the story of Alexander Bedward, the flying preacherman. She remembers what happened to the Rastaman and his helper, Bongo Moody; she thinks of Soft-Paw, the leader of the Angola gang and what lies beneath her house. For trouble is brewing once more among the ramshackle lanes of Augustown and as Ma Taffy knows, each day contains much more than its own hours or minutes or seconds. In fact, each day contains all of history...

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