Come and join us for Jot Book Club at Station South, Levenshulme.

Meet and talk with other readers in an informal, loosely structured setting about your impressions, feelings, interpretations, associations and pleasures of reading our chosen book.

Everyone welcome!

Our March Book Club will be reading 'Sail Away Land', a collection of Short Stories by Ben Pester (Granta, 2026).

Purchase of the book here will secure you a place in the club on a first come first served basis.

PLEASE NOTE:

You can choose to have your book home delivered at the usual rate of postage or to be picked up for free at our Station South pop-up shop on the following days ONLY:

• Sunday 12th July 10-4pm
• Sunday 2nd August 10-4pm
• Sunday 16th August 10-4pm
  

About the book:

Sail Away Land is the space where we might go when we’re no longer alive (sometimes only temporarily). In this uncommon and disarming collection, the characters go ‘there’ with or without knowing it. Maybe they have been living there all along without noticing – just like they hadn’t really noticed that everyone is carrying a shiny black suitcase.

These stories are about normal things – losing the people we’re closest to, forgiving them, finding love and managing to hold onto it – but also about going to parties through a door in the back of a colleague’s head, housebreaking in search of a sister’s ghost, and asking the strangers in the kitchen to resurrect you at midnight.

Like brilliant and strange anxiety dreams in prose, the stories in Sail Away Land are full of temporal weirdness, life and non-being, psychological acuity, imagination and wit, all while being effortlessly, seductively readable and incredibly moving.

'I hugely enjoyed Sail Away Land. Bizarre and disquieting... Very few, if any contemporary writers, capture the drudgery of life in capitalist society, the scourge of deferred gratification, in quite the way that Ben Pester does, the feeling of being constantly trapped inside an anxiety dream.' — Sara Baume

Granta, 2026, 208pages.