Looking to connect with some fellow Calgarians and talk about books while you do it? Join us at the Working Words Book Club! Books and wine—a perfect pairing.
We meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month after work for a discussion and a glass of wine.
Please join us if you’re interested, even if you don’t finish the book. (Yet be prepared for some spoilers!) Space is limited, so please reserve your spot using the Google Form in the registration link below.
Questions or suggestions? Email Marlies.
The details
- Time: Meet at 5:30pm on the fourth Tuesday of the month.
- Location: Hosted by Unfiltered Wine Bar (1020 14 St SW).
- Books: If you decide to buy your book from Shelf Life Books, you can get a 10% discount by telling them you’re part of the book club.
- Cost: No fee to join or reserve your spot.
- Discussion: Marlies will start things off, but come with your ideas, questions and stories.
The dates and books
~March 24, 2026~
Book: Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
Reserve your spot: Registration link
With boundless curiosity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories, and even a neuroscientist’s fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: what’s the big deal about wine?
~April 28, 2026~
Book: The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
Reserve your spot: Registration link (will open March 17, 2026)
Based on an 1895 catastrophe that was captured in a series of surreal photographs, The Paris Express is a thrilling ride and a literary masterpiece full of the politics, fears, and chaos of an era not unlike our own.
~May 26, 2026~
Book: Land of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
Reserve your spot: Registration link (will open April 21, 2026)
Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped.
~June 23, 2026~
Book: Prairie Chicken Dance Tour by Dawn Dumont
Reserve your spot: Registration link (will open May 19, 2026)
The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour is loosely based—like, hospital-gown loose—on the true story of a group of Indigenous dancers who left Saskatchewan and toured through Europe in the 1970s. Dawn Dumont brings her signature razor-sharp wit and impeccable comedic timing to this hilarious, warm, and wildly entertaining novel.