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

27th May, 7-8.15pm

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 'No Ghosts', by Max Lury (Peninsula Press, 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 19th April 10-4pm
• Sunday 3rd May 10-4pm
• Sunday 17th May 10-4pm
  

About the book:

Kieran and Harlow’s best friend Annie disappeared a year ago. And now, so have the ghosts. 

After being reunited at Annie’s memorial, Kieran and Harlow begin separate searches for their lost friend, all while trying to repair their friendship. Harlow, recently retired from the CGI company she helped found, discovers fragments of the dead – faces, gestures, glances – in AI generated videos; meanwhile Kieran, aimless and isolated, stumbles into an occult community of those dedicated to finding the missing ghosts.

The friends’ journeys will lead them through a world at once recognisable and strangely removed. A subterranean world of endless tunnels filled with ominous arrangements of consumer goods; a world of seances where attendees are haunted by the empty spaces where ghosts used to be. As Harlow and Kieran are drawn deeper into the circumstances behind Annie’s – and the ghosts’ – disappearance, a terrifying, singular pattern breaks the surface.

No Ghosts is a startling debut which plumbs the undercurrents of feeling that pool beneath our use of emergent technologies, to ask what new forms haunting might take. Told with a sinister precision, it dramatises the abstraction and unreality that increasingly define our everyday lives, and marks the arrival of a major new literary novelist.

‘No Ghosts is not only incisive but prescient on our increasing immersion in an unstable, tech-augmented reality. But what makes this a really great novel is Lury’s astute social observations – his flawless ear for dialogue and radar for subtext that really nail a generational zeitgeist and the conditions it exists within. And how it seeps into work, love, death and memorial. His prose somehow manages to be coolly detached and precise while also being full of soul – and it’s a defiant, resilient kind of soul, however damaged and embattled. An unmissable debut.’ — Luke Kennard

“No Ghosts is a subtle, strange, substantial novel about friendship haunted by loss. It captures the uncanniness of contemporary life in a way I’ve never read before.”  — Caleb Klaces

Peninsula Press, 2026, 304pages.