We are now giving you our book choices two months in advance in case you want to read at a more leisurely pace. Join once a month, or once every two months, the choice is yours!

Our book for January will be 'Wide Sargasso Sea' a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel

to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress.

Our book for February will be 'The Village of Eight Graves'  by Sheisi Yokomizo, one of Japan's most famous and best-loved mystery writers. The novel has it all; secret treasure, murder, a terrible curse and deadly poisonings. The brilliant Kosuke Kindaichi investigates. We excited to welcome Bryan Karetnyk, translator of 'The Village of Eight Graves' as our guest in February.

If you want to support your local bookshop to purchase your copy, we can recommend Dulwich Books, Clapham Books and Forest Hill Books to name a few. For online sales why not try uk.bookshop.org where you get to allocate the sale to a bookshop of your choice.

If you are not part of the book club list and would like to be, please email signup@thedepartmentstore.com.