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Saw this via @adriennemareebrown and it’s been rolling around my brain for the last few weeks and has really emphasised what I love about reading the books we read at Hothouse and then discuss together. So much of it is about listening to the a

Hi everyone! We can’t quite believe it’s been TWO YEARS of @hothousebookclub , thank you so much for being part of the community 🫶🫶🫶🫶

Diyora and I wanted to check in as we begin to prepare for 2025 and ask you for some feedback on ho

Reposting the @climatefictionprize’s long list from @climate__spring for anyone who wants to read some fiction about the climate crisis! I’m really excited to read orbital soon - @isseymg

“Nine novels, including Booker Prize-winne

Hi everyone! Apologies that the next date is a little later than planned it’s a small team behind hothouse and we’ve all been rather swamped lately. That being said we’re getting BACK on it and would love to see new and old faces at

Last session we read The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. It was an interesting one, while I loved the focus on decay and the possibility it holds as well as the west’s f

A big thank you to everyone who joined the discussion of ‘The Mushroom at the End of the World’ a few weeks ago! It was great hearing all your perspectives on precarity and its possibilities as we near environmental collapse. The conversa

Our next book will be ‘The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins’ by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

We will be meeting on the 15th October at Housmans (ticket link in bio).  A tale of diversity within o

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming is challenging to review, given it’s a textbook (whoops, we didn’t realise before seeing it in person😅). However, I found it an incredibly valuable resource fo

Oops, we got so wrapped up in the last session that we forgot to snap any pics! So, here’s a quick cameo from one of our furry Hothouse members with the book instead! 🤭

This time, instead of sticking to our discussion based approach to sessio

Hothouse wouldn’t exist without the support of London’s independent book stores (love u @housmans_books 🫶), but another favourite of ours @thecommonpress needs some help to continue existing!! (We’ve posted a donation link in stori

Hi everyone! Our next book will be ‘Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming’ by Paul Hawken.

We’re meeting on the 3rd September after our summer break! Ticket link in bio🎟️

Drawdown presents

Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change was a text we desperately needed to read as a book club. Our membership is fairly young, with most of us born after 1990. Though I can’t speak for everyone, I imagine that our unders

I think about this quote from Arundhati Roy talking about the Occupy movement in the epilogue of Capitalism: A Ghost Story a lot, but in reference to the climate just world we want to build.

Today feels like one of those days where you can hear thi

After some pesky technical issues we FINALLY present to you the third episode of the Hothouse Podcast discussing ‘Feminism or Death’ with @alicecappelle_!!

In this episode we discuss Ecofeminism as well as key themes of the book and als

via @winsorkinkade_

Location

Housmans Bookshop

5 Caledonian Rd

London

N1 9DY

Contact

hothousebookclub@gmail.com