June Book Club - Dominion

Join us this month to discuss Dominion at our June book club! When: 25/6/26 18:00 start, doors open from 17:50 OR 27/6/26 10:00 start, doors open from 9:50 Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can order the book here to pick up from the shop. Dominion - £12.99 Book club discount, 10% off - £11.69 Tickets to the book club are free but we would like you to register so that we can keep track of numbers. As it is a free event we would appreciate if you bought the book from us as that allows us to keep running events like this. However if you have a copy already feel free to sign up for just a ticket. If you would like to book a place but you already have the book you can do that here. Once you have signed up we will send you an email confirmation (this is separate to the automatic email from Shopify to confirm payment). We will then send an email when the book is ready to pick up. This may be included in the initial email if we already have the stock. Translated fiction book club runs every other month, the months in between we have a general book club. About the book: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE "This is one hell of a novel. It’s absolutely outstanding. Once I entered this world I didn’t want to leave." ―Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist In the town of Dominion, Mississippi, Reverend Sabre Winfrey, Jr. is more than a preacher. From his pulpit at the Seven Seals Baptist Church to the airwaves of his local radio station, he exerts influence over every aspect of society. By his side is his wife Priscilla, who types up his sermons and raises their five sons, favouring the youngest, Wonderboy. Handsome and adored, Wonderboy is destined to carry on his father’s legacy. But, after a violent altercation with a stranger, Wonderboy’s actions send shockwaves through the community. Told through the perspectives of the women who love these two men, this Morrisonian, God-troubled novel illuminates the pervasive sins of the patriarchy, and the bargains women strike to survive them. A vivid and unforgettable story that exalts the beauty and strength of Black womanhood, Dominion is the incandescent debut from one of America’s most exciting writers. Finalist for the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/FAULKNER Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Centre For Fiction First Novel Award Finalist for the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction A Must-read: People, NPR, Vulture, Literary Hub, The Millions, Goodreads A Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch About the author: Addie E. Citchens was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and lives in New Orleans. A graduate of Jackson State University, she studied in the Florida State University Creative Writing Programme and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Oxford American's "Best of the South", and other publications. Her blues history work features prominently in Mississippi Folklife, and she has been heard on The Mississippi Arts Hour on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. She was the inaugural recipient of the Farrar, Strauss and Giroux Writer's Fellowship, and her short story "That Girl" won the O. Henry Prize. Dominion is her first novel. Accessibility: We ask in our confirmation email if you have any access needs, we will do everything we can to accommodate them. If you would like to reach out before booking you can email us lily@bookspacecardiff.co.uk or use our contact form. We are wheelchair accessible. We have a tempory ramp we can put out to get in over the small step and once inside the shop floor is even. If you want to find out more about how to get here, check out our about page.