We’re rounding out spring and celebrating Pride Month 🌈 with The South, Tash Aw’s exquisite Booker Prize–shortlisted novel of longing, inheritance and belonging.
Set on a failing family farm during one sweltering summer, The South tells the story of Jay and Chuan, two boys connected by circumstance and desire, against the backdrop of a changing world. It’s tender, cinematic and quietly devastating — a novel that lingers like heat on the skin.
In honour of Pride, our June event will celebrate love in all its forms — with open-hearted conversation, community, and a toast (or two) to queer joy. After our online discussion, we’ll gather at Megan’s Old Town, Clapham, a fairy-lit Mediterranean hideaway draped in greenery and community spirit. Expect mezze, mimosas and that signature Megan’s magic that always makes you feel like you’re on holiday.
See you at brunch! 🥂📚🥑
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Megan’s, Old Town
Megan's began its life as a small antiques shop on the Kings Road in 2002. We have since opened in more neighbourhoods & Megan's has blossomed in to the much-loved community hub that it is today. We serve Mediterranean-influenced, chef-made dishes, created by our Turkish Exec Head Chef, Sercan, using the highest quality ingredients.
Sit beneath a real olive tree at the Clapham Old Town restaurant, which in true Megan's style, is draped in fairy lights.
The South by Tash Aw
A radiant novel of longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer—about family, desire, and what we inherit—from celebrated author Tash Aw.
When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought.
Still, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the local son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except for one.
Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members confront their own regrets, and begin to drift apart. Like the land around them, they are powerless to resist the global forces that threaten to render their lives obsolete.
At once sweeping and intimate, The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide. It is the first in a quartet of novels that form Tash Aw’s masterful portrait of a family navigating a period of great change—a reimagined epic for our times.
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