May 2025 Brunch Book Club

Spring is in full swing, and so is Brunch Book Club! This May, we’re diving into a bold and brilliant read: Fundamentally by Nussaibah Yousin, which has just been longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction. This razor-sharp, darkly funny, and deeply moving novel explores love, faith, and belonging through the unexpected friendship between an East London teenager who joined ISIS and the academic tasked with rehabilitating her. It’s a book that promises to spark some seriously thought-provoking conversations.

As always, we’ll kick things off with our Online Discussion from 10:30am - 12:30pm, where we’ll unpack the novel’s themes, characters, and its audacious take on contemporary issues. Then, in true Brunch Book Club fashion, we’ll head to Paradise Green in Bishopsgate (3:00 - 4:30pm) for a stunning Aussie-inspired brunch in one of the most artful and vibrant dining spaces in London. Expect top-tier coffee, Mediterranean-meets-Asian flavours, and an atmosphere that brings the Gold Coast straight to the City.

Join us for a book that dares to challenge and a brunch that’s nothing short of indulgent. Save your spot now!

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PREORDER & PREPAYMENT POLICY: To confirm your place, we require a full preorder and prepayment one week in advance of the event. If these aren’t received by the deadline, your ticket will be forfeited. A preorder form will be sent to attendees via email two weeks before the event. Please ensure you add YWRtaW4gfCBicnVuY2hib29rY2x1YiAhIGNvbQ== to your contacts and check your spam to avoid disappointment.

Reminder: All tickets are non-refundable.

‘By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?’

Nadia is an academic who’s been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues.

Sara is a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen.

Nadia is struck by how similar they are: both feisty and opinionated, from a Muslim background, with a shared love of Dairy Milk and rude pick-up lines. A powerful friendship forms between the two women, until a secret confession from Sara threatens everything Nadia has been working for.

A bitingly original, wildly funny and razor-sharp exploration of love, family, religion and the decisions we make in pursuit of belonging, Fundamentally upends and explores a defining controversy of our age with heart, complexity and humour.

Paradise Green is the Daisy Green Collective's most ambitious and largest restaurant to date. Three years in the making, the 10,000 sq ft space in the heart of the City (opposite the Heron Tower) has been stunningly designed to bring together art, design and food on an epic scale in an art gallery style restaurant.

Playfully inspired by Surfers Paradise on Queensland's Gold Coast, it features a 'sunrise' room - the perfect spot for healthy mornings with green juices, killer house coffee and lazy brunches set in bright, airy interiors contrasted with the 'sunset' 3D light bar & restaurant ideal for long dinners with friends.

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Info: A guided online book discussion hosted by our founder Taragh who will run through a set of pre-prepared questions. A link to this discussion is sent out the week of our event along with the discussion questions. To receive these first please subscribe to our mailing list. If you haven't received a link please check your spam folder and ensure you have added our email address: YnJ1bmNoYm9va2NsdWJsZG4gfCBnbWFpbCAhIGNvbQ==

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