Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club - The Raven Scholar

Thu Feb 05 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

325 S Washington Ave | Royal Oak

Sidetrack Bookshop
Publisher/HostSidetrack Bookshop
Sci-Fi\/Fantasy Book Club - The Raven Scholar
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Sidetrack Bookshop BOOK CLUB discussing The Raven Scholar, by Antonia Hodgson. Led by Sidetrack Bookseller Megan B.
About this Event

* *Note: $5 registration fee can be used as a credit toward a purchase in-store. The credit expires the night of book club.**


Join us for Book Club!

Sidetrack Bookshop is a mission-driven bookstore, which means (in part) that we are committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive space for people of all identities. In order to maintain our welcoming and inclusive space in the context of what we hope will be a lively and productive book club discussion, we have developed the following house rules.

By attending a book club meeting, you agree to the following:

  1. Share the floor: Be sure to let everyone talk and express their thoughts on the book. If you feel like you're talking a lot, you probably are! Invite others to speak.
  2. Be respectful: We'll no doubt have differing opinions. Seek to understand first, then to be understood. Check your privilege, and take special care with others who have lived experience differing from your own.
  3. Comments or behavior that demean a specific person, identity, or culture will not be tolerated.

Book club hosts will keep these house rules in mind and will redirect you or the conversation as a whole if we feel they aren't being honored. We also reserve the right to ask an attendee to leave if we feel they're contributing to an unwelcome space.


About the Book

The Raven Scholar is a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue from an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy.
Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace, the reign of Bersun the Brusque has come to an end. In the dizzying heat of midsummer, seven exceptional warriors, thinkers, strategists compete to replace him.
When one of them is murdered, it falls to Neema Kraa, the emperor’s brilliant, idiosyncratic High Scholar, to find the killer and fight for the throne. Neema believes she is alone. But we are here to help; all she has to do is let us in.
If she succeeds, we will win an empire. If she fails, death awaits her. But we won’t let that happen.


About the Author

Antonia Hodgson is a freelance editor, and author of the bestselling Thomas Hawkins historical crime series. Her first novel, The Devil in the Marshalsea, won the CWA Historical Dagger Award and was shortlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year. She lives in Kent, England, where she has been visited by a fox and a raven, and a tiger in the form of her neighbour’s ginger cat. No dragons as yet.

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325 S Washington Ave, 325 South Washington Avenue, Royal Oak, United States

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