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Staff Book Club

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Led by Tracy Lowe from Library Learning Resources, our friendly and relaxed online Book Club is open to all NTU staff. Completely free to attend, join us for some book chat!

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This activity is open to NTU staff.

Join Tracy Lowe online every second Wednesday of the month for our free staff book club.

Tracy is an Academic Skills Tutor, working with the Academic Engagement Team within Libraries Learning Resources. She has worked for NTU libraries for over 10 years and loves her job (her words!). She loves books; buying them, reading them, reviewing them, sharing them and talking about them. Join Tracy to chat about our book of the month and enjoy some general book chat too.

No need to book, just join online.

Our book for February — Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

A tender and emotionally complex debut about the relationship between two young Black British artists, Open Water shines a light on the ways love and race can be interlinked in modern society.

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them.
Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.

At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.

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