The Exchange book club x Blacklore: We Need to Talk About Money
- Location
- The Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
- Event cost
- 拢5, booking essential.
- Dates
- Wednesday 5 November 2025 (18:45-20:00)
This October, join The Exchange Book Club in partnership with Lyza Lawal, founder of Blacklore. Together, we’ll celebrate Booktober by exploring powerful stories by writers of colour that reflect shared human experiences and emotions.
The fourth and final book on our TBR (to-be-read) list is We Need to Talk About Money, by Otegha Uwagba, a candid and insightful exploration of how money shapes our lives, identities, and relationships.
Book synopsis
“An extraordinarily candid personal account of the ups and downs wrought by money, We Need To Talk About Money is a vital exploration of stories and issues that will be familiar to most. This is a book about toxic workplaces and misogynist men, about getting pay raises and getting evicted. About class and privilege and racism and beauty. About shame and pride, compulsion and fear.
In unpicking the shroud of secrecy surrounding money – who has it, how they got it, and how it shapes our lives – this boldly honest account of one woman’s journey upturns countless social conventions, and uncovers some startling truths about our complex relationships with money in the process.”
Tickets
Tickets for this book club are £5 per person, which includes entry to the session and a drink.
To make our book club as accessible as possible, we are also offering a limited number of free Solidarity tickets. For more information on Solidarity tickets, please visit our ticketing information page.
Buy the book!
Our official Booktober bookselling partner is .
The Heath Bookshop is a vibrant, award-winning, independent bookshop in the heart of Kings Heath in Birmingham. The Heath Bookshop is for everyone and anyone, offering a safe 缅北轮奸 space with a diverse range of books, delicious hot and cold drinks, and a much-loved Kate Bush coffee table. The Heath Bookshop won Independent Bookshop of the Year 2025, which was announced at the British Book Awards in May of this year.
To place an order with The Heath Bookshop, head to or contact them directly by email at orders@theheathbookshop.co.uk.
This event is presented as part of Booktober at The Exchange. Running throughout October 2025, the programme celebrates the joy of creative writing and reading in all its forms and will be bursting with activities, events and opportunities to explore the magic of literature.