The Villager Book Club is a roaming book club and occasional reading retreat, popping-up at intimate venues in villages, towns and cities across the UK. Events are hosted by me, Emma Galvin, with the aim of finding connection through the books we love.
You’ll be able to find out about our latest book picks and upcoming events on Instagram, and details about how to book our events will be posted there too, along with dates, times and venues.
You don’t have to come along to every event, just pick the ones you can make it to, but it’s a good idea to book early as spaces are limited by the nature of our venues.
Upcoming Events
Thursday 29 October 2026: May We Feed The King by Rebecca Perry, Chapel & Co, Blakesley, Northamptonshire
This month marks a whole year of The Villager Book Club! Join us for a bit of a celebration where it all started at Chapel & Co in Blakesley, to talk about Rebecca Perry’s Booker Prize shortlisted debut novel May We Feed The King.
This dual-timeline novel explores grief, historical ambiguity, and the nature of power. An unnamed, grieving museum curator is hired to style the rooms of a 750-year-old palace for an exhibition and becomes transfixed by an obscure medieval king, using his story as an escape from her present reality.
Seven centuries earlier, in the same building, an unnamed king unexpectedly inherits the throne. Laced with desire and longing, it is a meditation on history and storytelling: on what makes a King ‘Great’, and a life meaningful.
Tickets for this event are £25 per person, to include food and drinks, and are available to book here.
If you’d like to order a copy of May We Feed The King, you can do so using our affiliate program at Bookshop.org here.
PAST Events
29 September 2026: Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy & Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, Stowe Heights Farm, Church Stowe, Northamptonshire
15 June 2026: Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller, The Manor House, Culworth, Northamptonshire
23 May 2026: Babette’s Feast by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), The Food Library, Northampton
10 May 2026: Pride & Prejudice Literary Lunch & Open Garden, Woodhill Park Estate, Oswestry, Shropshire
26 April 2026: The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, Hotpod Daventry, Northamptonshire
26 March 2026: Heartburn by Nora Ephron, Chapel & Co., Blakesley, Northamptonshire
29 Jan 2026: A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin, The Manor House, Culworth, Northamptonshire
10 December 2025: The Resurrection of Flo by Jo Wood at Chapel & Co, Blakesley, Northamptonshire
11 November 2025: Audition by Katie Kitamura at The Royal Oak, Eydon, Northamptonshire
16 October 2025: Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje at Chapel and Co, Blakesley, Northamptonshire