Yellowface - Thursdays from 16th January

Description

Highlights

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book club course using Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

Author Athena Liu is a literary phenomenon while her friend June Hayward is a literally nobody, and is jealous. So when Athena dies in a freak accident, June sees nothing too wrong in stealing her unpublished work and publishing it herself under the name Juniper Song. When questions start to be asked, what will June do to protect her new-found success...?

Yellowface raises interesting contemporary questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, while being gripping and highly readable.

‘Ingenious, astute, hugely entertaining’ David Nicholls

‘Hard to put down. Harder to forget’ Stephen King

Geoff says:

"It's funny that this book has been a publishing sensation - given that it satirizes the book publishing industry! It was Amazon book of the year, and the Fiction Book of the Year 2024 at the British Book Awards."