Rapid Reads Sharing Circle
                                                                                                            Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 6:00PM                                                                                                                                        
                                    Redbridge Central Library                                                            
Event Description
Join us Tuesday October 28 For Black History Month, we’ll be discussing ‘Open Water’ by Caleb Azumah Nelson.
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British–Ghanaian writer and photographer. ‘Open Water’ is his debut novel, and won the Costa Book Award for First Novel 2021. ‘Open Water’ is a romance novel about two Black artists from South East London and deals with themes such as race, love and masculinity.
Some other related Rapid Reads are:
Hello Mum by Bernadine EvaristoNotting Hill Carnival: A West Side Story by Candice Carty-Williams
These are suggested books only, so feel free to read any other books suitable for Black History Month with fewer than 200 pages. You can then recommend your read/s to others at the sharing circle!
You can join Rapid Reads in person at Redbridge Central Library or you can join online. The online joining details will be emailed to you one week before the book chat and again on the morning of 28 October.
For more information, please email [email protected]
When
                                                                                                    6:00PM - 7:00PM
Tuesday 28 October 2025                                                                                                
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Where
                                                                                                                            Redbridge Central Library                                                                                 
                                        Clements Rd, Ilford                                        
                                                                                                                         
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