The Free-Range Bookclub
Bookclubbers without boundaries in Nelson, New Zealand
Category: UK author
The End of Everything – M John Harrison
Posted on October 25, 2026 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKERTHON The End of Everything is a speculative novel set in a future where an unexplained crisis has transformed the world, and strange new life forms coexist with humans. Phillip Tennent makes his living collecting artefacts washed ashore from the English Channel,… Continue Reading “The End of Everything – M John Harrison”
Category: Absurdist, Adventure, Booker Prize, Dystopian, Existentialist, Experimental fiction, Faith & Religion, Humour, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Postmodern Literature, Psychological, Satire, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Surreal, UK authorTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2026
Black Bag – Luke Kennard
Posted on October 4, 2026 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Black Bag follows an unemployed actor who accepts a bizarre job participating in a psychology experiment where he spends a term attending university lectures zipped inside a large black leather bag. Inspired by a real experiment from 1967, this absurdist campus… Continue Reading “Black Bag – Luke Kennard”
What We Can Know – Ian McEwan
Posted on July 8, 2026 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Sally In 2014 a great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. In 2119 the lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas.… Continue Reading “What We Can Know – Ian McEwan”
Kingfisher – Rozie Kelly
Posted on May 22, 2026 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE An unnamed creative writing academic becomes increasingly drawn to an older colleague, a poet he calls his kingfisher. Their attraction develops and disrupts his established life with his partner Michael. As he moves between these two worlds, illness affecting those… Continue Reading “Kingfisher – Rozie Kelly”
The Mercy Step – Marcia Hutchison
Posted on May 15, 2026 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE The Mercy Step follows Mercy, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants growing up in Bradford in the 1960s. The seventh daughter in a large family, she spends much of her childhood navigating a crowded home, a deeply religious community and a… Continue Reading “The Mercy Step – Marcia Hutchison”
Love is Blind – William Boyd
Posted on February 4, 2026 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Sally Brodie Moncur is a young Scottish piano tuner who moves to Paris for a job and to escape his tyrannical father. There, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist changes his future and sparks an obsessive love affair with… Continue Reading “Love is Blind – William Boyd”
Category: Adventure, Art, Faith & Religion, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Psychological, Romance, UK authorTags: Free Range Bookclub 2026
Flesh – David Szalay
Posted on October 11, 2025 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKERTHON The story of István, a Hungarian teen who lives with his mother and is subjected to a traumatic event. From there we bear witness to a collection of intimate moments set over years, chronicling the demands of life for an everyday… Continue Reading “Flesh – David Szalay”
The Land In Winter – Andrew Miller
Posted on October 5, 2025 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Bristol, 1962, post-war optimism is fading, and a new, modern world forming. Two young couples live next to each other: a doctor and his wife in a beautiful cottage, a farmer and his wife in a rundown, under-heated farmhouse. Both women… Continue Reading “The Land In Winter – Andrew Miller”
Fundamentally – Nussaibah Younis
Posted on June 3, 2025 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE Nadia Amin, a PhD graduate, publishes an article on deradicalisation, and ends up with a job rehabilitating Isis brides in Iraq. Relishing the opportunity to escape her claustophobic mother and broken relationship she realises she needs to heal herself as… Continue Reading “Fundamentally – Nussaibah Younis”
Orbital – Samantha Harvey
Posted on November 2, 2024 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKERTHON One day in the life of six astronauts in a space station, hurtling around earth 16 times. They admire and ponder life from afar, considering humanity from the Big Bang, current environmental crises through to thoughts on where humanity might end… Continue Reading “Orbital – Samantha Harvey”
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