Eco Book Group

Through a blend of books on topics such as Ecology and Sustainability, Nature to Fiction, we want to explore the current Climate Change crisis, and what we can do about it.

So, we welcome you to our Eco Book Group, led by Alexander, whose aim is "to provide a space for people to approach challenging topics in a welcoming environment." Join us and spend an evening talking about books over a glass of wine and nibbles.

The £5 you pay for your entry acts as a book voucher redeemable against next month's book.

***Due to a clash of dates I have had to move our Eco book group to Tuesday 7th May at 7pm. This is a one-off, we will return to the second Monday of the Month from here on.***

This month's book is Venomous Lumpsucker, by Ned Beauman.

It's fiction time again and this month we have - dare I say it - a science fiction title for you to enjoy. It's a weird, bleak, often hilarious account of a mad-cap rush to save a missing species of fish, the eponymous lumpsucker. Set in the near future and filled with warnings and promise, this title should give us plenty to discuss!

The near future. With tens of thousands of species dying out every year, our last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where their remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates every single one.

In the aftermath, a troubled conservationist and a crooked mining exec must team up in search of the venomous lumpsucker, a lost fish that they both desperately need to save. Together, they pursue it through the weird landscapes of the 2030s – a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the Baltic Sea; the dangerous hinterlands of a totalitarian state. And the further they go, the deeper they’re drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing?