May Book Club - Tangerinn

Join us this month to discuss Tangerinn at our May book club! When: 28/5/26 18:00 start, doors open from 17:50 OR 30/5/26 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. Tangerinn - £14.99 Book club discount, 10% off - £13.49 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: Mina is thirty years old and leads a life in London built with great care and little spontaneity, in a frantic attempt to finally feel “right”. One evening she receives a phone call from her mother: her father has died. Mina returns home for the funeral, but ends up staying. Home is a small seaside town where her Moroccan father ran a beach bar frequented mostly by immigrants, a place of refuge for those who didn’t feel welcome in this new land. It’s here, in a place that doesn’t seem to belong to anyone, and where people too often appear like ghosts who pass and vanish, that Mina finds her family, and the memories of her father: the mythical, elusive, eternal migrant with a mysterious past. Here, Mina will discover that roots are just a fleeting dream, a desire to find oneself in a common history and shared affection that allows us to forget, at least at times, the ferocity of the world and the wounds of abandonment. About the author: Emanuela Anechoum was born in Reggio Calabria in 1991 and lives in Rome. After her studies, she started working in the publishing world in London and later moved to Italy. She has written for Vice, Doppiozero, Marvin Rivista. Tangerinn, winner of the Selezione Bancarella 2024 Prize, is her first novel. About the translator: Lucy Rand is a literary translator, editor, and English-language teacher. Her translations include the international bestseller The Phone Box at the End of the World by Laura Imai Messina. She lives in Norwich, England. 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.