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December: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
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December: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Hosted by Drinking Club With A Reading Problem (Clapham Junction)

Thursday 3 December 2026, 19:00Venue time (London)
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Hi everyone, for December we will be reading
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk. We will also do our annual book swap, so please bring a book wrapped up if you’d like to take part and you’ll swap it with another person 🎁 Synopsis below:

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she's unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by 'one of Europe's major humanist writers' (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination – and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk's native Poland.

See you there 🍷🎄

Steph & Christina

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