Babel Book Club is a vibrant local book club for books in translation that brings together curious minds to explore the world through literature. Each month, they dive into a book from a different country and from a different language to spark discussions about diverse cultures, perspectives and stories. It’s a space for passionate readers to connect, share insights, and travel the globe, one book at a time.

For this month's special Curious Minds session, the book club will discuss Death and the Penguin by the Ukranian writer Andrey Kurkov, originally translated from Russian. Come along and chat about translated literature and this satirical novel set in post-Soviet Ukraine about an aspiring writer and his close companion...