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Climate+ Challenge Book Club: Orbital

by Alison Horne on 2025-03-04T14:32:00-08:00 | 0 Comments

The KPU Climate+ Challenge and KPU Library invite you to join us for a virtual book club where we will be discussing Orbital, by Samantha Harvey. Orbital is a short novel following one day in the lives of six astronauts traveling through space on a space station mission. The astronauts are from the USA, Russia, Italy, Britain and Japan. Orbital won the Booker Prize and the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for fiction.

British author Samantha Harvey has written five novels and one work of non-fiction. Her work has been longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize.

KPU Library has a limited number of copies available:

Print copies

Ebook edition

Our March 19 online discussion will be facilitated by KPU Journalism Instructor and former Vancouver Sun books editor Tracy Sherlock. If you have any questions, Ask Us or email Tracy Sherlock at tracy.sherlock@kpu.ca.

Details:

March 19, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Meeting and Registration link:

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/67a57ac9-5a90-4bfe-a80a-d5e18a20fab1@66b9f62d-3042-495e-aab6-db86f21500c0 

Cover of Orbital. A colourful swirl of celestial bodies in space


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