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 The Wax Child (Penguin, 2025), by Olga Ravn.

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

Participants will be emailed with further information before each session.

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 25th January 10-4pm
• Sunday 8th February 10-4pm
• Sunday 22nd February 10-4pm

About the book:

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet – it watches and listens.

It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the candlelight, she gazes with love at her friends, and hears the things they say in the shadows. It knows pine forest, misty fjord and the crackle of the burning pyre. It observes the violence in men’s eyes and the cruelty of their laws. In time, it begins to understand that once a suspicion of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove impossible to shake…

Based on an infamous seventeenth century Danish witch trial, The Wax Child is the extraordinary new novel from Olga Ravn, one of the most acclaimed and original writers at work today: a mesmerising, frightening vision of a time when witches and magic were as real to the human mind as soil and seawater.

I gulped The Wax Child down and dreamed wild dreams about it. Just brilliant. — Max Porter

Penguin, 2025, 144pages.