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Staff Book Club

A pile of books, a cup and saucer and the words book club written on a chalk board.
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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 sustainability-themed book chat as part of Green Week.

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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 selection for this month is featured as part of our Green Week 2025 celebration, aligning with NTU's commitment to embedding sustainability at the core of all our efforts.

Our book for March — Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Combining an urgent message about the state of our planet - and us humans - with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair, the author of former Book of the Month The Western Wind delivers an affectionate, deeply human saga of six astronauts in space reflecting on life back down on Earth.

Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below.

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.

Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.
The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?

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