Found in Translation is a brand new book club for 2025.
The group meets on the third Wednesday of every alternate month from 6pm to 8pm in the bookshop - although for the next meeting this was extended into October as quite a few of the group were away on holiday!
Books will be chosen in advance and will rotate around the globe; specifically with the aim of looking at how words are interpreted in translation.
JOIN THE CLUB
The book club meetings are seated events, so places are limited, and events can get pretty full. Please email Jules on jules@northbooks.co.uk to add your name to the list. Participation is free and if the book is purchased in advance from North Books a 10% discount is offered.
At North Books, 4 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye on Wednesday 1 October, 6–8pm.
THE BOOK
All Souls by Javier Marias is the second book on FIT’s 2025 reading list
The second novel of 2025 up for discussion on Wednesday 1 October is All Souls by Javier Marias. This book is available from North Books at a 10% discount if you are joining the discussion.
From one of the most important voices in world literature—and the award-winning author of The Infatuations—a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. • “Javier Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers.” —J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply “being” at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from “one of the best contemporary writers” (J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature).