Singles Book Club - May
Thu, May 07
|Bàrd Books
What better way to meet someone than over the pages of a book? Join us for a Thursday's Singles Book Club.
Time & Location
May 07, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Bàrd Books, 341-343 Roman Rd, Bow, London E3 5QR, UK
About the event
May's choice is ON THE BUS WITHOUT A PHONE by Babak Ganjei
“Weirdly relatable, endlessly bleak, and laugh out loud funny.”—James Acaster
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ THE BOOK BEFORE ATTENDING!
Taking place over the course of a bus journey en route to a first date, BABAK GANJEI’S debut novel charts the seemingly infinite disappointments, misunderstandings and humiliations that have piled up over the course of narrator Bob Green’s life to date. Bob’s immediate circumstances, and the cast of characters with which he shares them, provide the imaginative jumping off point for digressions on teenage love, suburban ennui, pornography, race and identity, mobile phones, Converse, adult love, fatherhood, fast food, MF DOOM, the etiquette of bus seating and, perhaps most importantly of all, The Remains of the Day.
On the Bus Without A Phone is a dazzlingly intelligent, unashamedly comedic and ultimately moving work from a hugely original new writer.