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Study 1 Flush and Freshwater, Woolf’s experiments with life‑writing. Study 2: Between the Acts, her final, visionary novel. Includes visits to Monk’s House and Charleston. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/virginia-woo...
#VirginiaWoolf
#Modernism
#Alfriston
#VirginiaWoolf
#Modernism
#Alfriston
February 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Study 1 Flush and Freshwater, Woolf’s experiments with life‑writing. Study 2: Between the Acts, her final, visionary novel. Includes visits to Monk’s House and Charleston. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/virginia-woo...
#VirginiaWoolf
#Modernism
#Alfriston
#VirginiaWoolf
#Modernism
#Alfriston
January 29, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The Art of Ekphrasis - the moment a writer enters an artwork and brings its hidden world to life on the page. Join us for this incredible 4 week study. Starts THIS SUNDAY. Book here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/poet... #Ekphrasis #ArtAndPoetry #PoetryCommunity #VisualArt #CreativeWriting
January 27, 2026 at 9:45 AM
The Art of Ekphrasis - the moment a writer enters an artwork and brings its hidden world to life on the page. Join us for this incredible 4 week study. Starts THIS SUNDAY. Book here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/poet... #Ekphrasis #ArtAndPoetry #PoetryCommunity #VisualArt #CreativeWriting
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled remains one of the most mesmerising novels of the last century. Join us as we explore its dream logic and quiet devastation. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/kazu...
#KazuoIshiguro
#TheUnconsoled
#LiteraryFiction
#BookDiscussion
#ReadersCommunity
#KazuoIshiguro
#TheUnconsoled
#LiteraryFiction
#BookDiscussion
#ReadersCommunity
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled remains one of the most mesmerising novels of the last century. Join us as we explore its dream logic and quiet devastation. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/kazu...
#KazuoIshiguro
#TheUnconsoled
#LiteraryFiction
#BookDiscussion
#ReadersCommunity
#KazuoIshiguro
#TheUnconsoled
#LiteraryFiction
#BookDiscussion
#ReadersCommunity
War, occupation, radical freedom - existentialism was born in crisis. Join Sartre, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty & more. Ready to question everything? THIS MONDAY book here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/exis... #Philosophy #Existentialism #PhilosophyQuotes #Philosopher
January 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
War, occupation, radical freedom - existentialism was born in crisis. Join Sartre, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty & more. Ready to question everything? THIS MONDAY book here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/exis... #Philosophy #Existentialism #PhilosophyQuotes #Philosopher
Study TWO superb, contemporary Bildungsroman page-turners featuring articulate and often surprisingly funny protagonists telling stories as old as the genre itself. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/grow... #ComingOfAgeLit #ContemporaryLit #bildungsroman #BookClubReads #LiteraryFiction
January 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Study TWO superb, contemporary Bildungsroman page-turners featuring articulate and often surprisingly funny protagonists telling stories as old as the genre itself. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/grow... #ComingOfAgeLit #ContemporaryLit #bildungsroman #BookClubReads #LiteraryFiction
STARTS 7th January, written almost alongside Hamlet (c.1600), sharing its ghost‑ridden obsessions but far wilder, Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge turns Renaissance tragedy into savage parody. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/anto... #Hamlet #RenaissanceTheatre #ElizabethanDrama
December 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
STARTS 7th January, written almost alongside Hamlet (c.1600), sharing its ghost‑ridden obsessions but far wilder, Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge turns Renaissance tragedy into savage parody. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/anto... #Hamlet #RenaissanceTheatre #ElizabethanDrama
Explore the wildest edges of Renaissance theatre, tracing Marston’s parody of the revenge tradition and his unflinching fascination with the macabre. 6 x Zoom meetings starts 7th January - BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/anto... #Hamlet #RenaissanceTheatre #ElizabethanDrama
December 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Explore the wildest edges of Renaissance theatre, tracing Marston’s parody of the revenge tradition and his unflinching fascination with the macabre. 6 x Zoom meetings starts 7th January - BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/anto... #Hamlet #RenaissanceTheatre #ElizabethanDrama
In common with many websites around the world, ours has been affected by yesterday's internet problems. Please email us at litsalon@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to book a study while we are waiting for the service to be restored.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
In common with many websites around the world, ours has been affected by yesterday's internet problems. Please email us at litsalon@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to book a study while we are waiting for the service to be restored.
Thank you for your patience!
Thank you for your patience!
Starts 1st December BOOK HERE www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/mary... Mary Poppins, as originally written by P.L.Travers in 1934, is no sugary nanny. She’s a mythic figure cloaked in domestic routine. #marypoppins, #BookClub #LiteraryAnalysis
#BookDiscussion, #CreativeReading, #ReadingGroup
#BookDiscussion, #CreativeReading, #ReadingGroup
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Starts 1st December BOOK HERE www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/mary... Mary Poppins, as originally written by P.L.Travers in 1934, is no sugary nanny. She’s a mythic figure cloaked in domestic routine. #marypoppins, #BookClub #LiteraryAnalysis
#BookDiscussion, #CreativeReading, #ReadingGroup
#BookDiscussion, #CreativeReading, #ReadingGroup
STARTS Tuesday 25th November. 3-meeting study of JAMES JOYCE’s 2 short stories from DUBLINERS. Book here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/jame...
Each image, reference, description carries symbolic resonance. #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #Modernism #Bloomsday
Each image, reference, description carries symbolic resonance. #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #Modernism #Bloomsday
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
STARTS Tuesday 25th November. 3-meeting study of JAMES JOYCE’s 2 short stories from DUBLINERS. Book here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/jame...
Each image, reference, description carries symbolic resonance. #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #Modernism #Bloomsday
Each image, reference, description carries symbolic resonance. #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #Modernism #Bloomsday
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November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Can poetry help us process our grief? One study meeting, three poems, to explore different kinds of grief: collective, private and ecological. 6th November 5pm-7.30pm BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/grie... #HealingThroughWords #VirtualStudyGroup #PoetryCommunity
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Can poetry help us process our grief? One study meeting, three poems, to explore different kinds of grief: collective, private and ecological. 6th November 5pm-7.30pm BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/grie... #HealingThroughWords #VirtualStudyGroup #PoetryCommunity
STARTS 5th November, 6 x 2-hour meetings, ‘The Best of The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke’. #Hamlet #shakespeare #shakespearequotes #hamletquotes BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-...
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
STARTS 5th November, 6 x 2-hour meetings, ‘The Best of The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke’. #Hamlet #shakespeare #shakespearequotes #hamletquotes BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-...
Percival Everett reimagines Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to centre Black American experience. BOOK NOW 6-week study on Zoom STARTS 21 October. www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/jame... #PercivalEverett #ModernLiterature #BookClub
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Percival Everett reimagines Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to centre Black American experience. BOOK NOW 6-week study on Zoom STARTS 21 October. www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/jame... #PercivalEverett #ModernLiterature #BookClub
Henry James was deeply interested in the power of adults to have a corrupting influence on children. He returned to this theme in WHAT MAISIE KNEW. 5 x Zoom meetings' study of the novel BOOK HERE www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/what... #HenryJames #WhatMaisieKnew #LiteraryFiction #Modernism #BookClub
October 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Henry James was deeply interested in the power of adults to have a corrupting influence on children. He returned to this theme in WHAT MAISIE KNEW. 5 x Zoom meetings' study of the novel BOOK HERE www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/what... #HenryJames #WhatMaisieKnew #LiteraryFiction #Modernism #BookClub
American fiction this October: from Henry James to Percival Everett via Ernest Hemingway, we're ranging wide and free this month (and Hemingway is pay-what-you-want charity donation!) Check us out!
October 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
American fiction this October: from Henry James to Percival Everett via Ernest Hemingway, we're ranging wide and free this month (and Hemingway is pay-what-you-want charity donation!) Check us out!
A 5 x Zoom study of WHAT MAISIE KNEW. In Maisie’s world, love is conditional, truth is fragmented, and care is a performance. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/what... #HenryJames #WhatMaisieKnew #LiteraryFiction #Modernism #BookClub
October 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A 5 x Zoom study of WHAT MAISIE KNEW. In Maisie’s world, love is conditional, truth is fragmented, and care is a performance. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/what... #HenryJames #WhatMaisieKnew #LiteraryFiction #Modernism #BookClub
STARTS TOMORROW, BOOK NOW: The Art of Ekphrasis: Poetry and Painting - a 4-study meeting 5-26 October: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/poet...
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
October 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
STARTS TOMORROW, BOOK NOW: The Art of Ekphrasis: Poetry and Painting - a 4-study meeting 5-26 October: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/poet...
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
Ekphrasis is poetic or prose response to visual art, evoking imagery even when the artwork is absent. Poetry and Painting – The Art of Ekphrasis - 4-study meeting 5-26 October BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/poet...
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Ekphrasis is poetic or prose response to visual art, evoking imagery even when the artwork is absent. Poetry and Painting – The Art of Ekphrasis - 4-study meeting 5-26 October BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/poet...
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
BOOK NOW for our 6-meeting study on Zoom of W. G. Sebald’s THE EMIGRANTS, starts 8 October at 7pm #Sebaldian, #PostwarLiterature, #AmReading, #BookClub HERE www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-...
September 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
BOOK NOW for our 6-meeting study on Zoom of W. G. Sebald’s THE EMIGRANTS, starts 8 October at 7pm #Sebaldian, #PostwarLiterature, #AmReading, #BookClub HERE www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-...
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All set for my Proust reread with the wonderful @litsalon.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
All set for my Proust reread with the wonderful @litsalon.bsky.social
Virginia Woolf’s childhood summers in St. Ives shaped her. Join our 4-day deep dive into The Waves in Cornwall. 28 Sept–1 Oct. Book your place for this immersive literary study HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #TheWaves #ModernistLiterature #LiteraryFiction #StIves
September 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Virginia Woolf’s childhood summers in St. Ives shaped her. Join our 4-day deep dive into The Waves in Cornwall. 28 Sept–1 Oct. Book your place for this immersive literary study HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #TheWaves #ModernistLiterature #LiteraryFiction #StIves
“They are ever returning to us, the dead.” BOOK NOW for our 6-meeting study on Zoom of W. G. Sebald’s THE EMIGRANTS, starts 8 October at 7pm www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-... #Sebaldian, #PostwarLiterature, #AmReading, #BookClub
September 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“They are ever returning to us, the dead.” BOOK NOW for our 6-meeting study on Zoom of W. G. Sebald’s THE EMIGRANTS, starts 8 October at 7pm www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-... #Sebaldian, #PostwarLiterature, #AmReading, #BookClub
STARTS 16th September, 8 x Zoom meetings 6-8pm; DUBLINERS by James Joyce. Read our BLOG here: www.litsalon.co.uk/2025/08/29/r... and BOOK your place here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/dubl... #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #ModernistLit #IrishLiterature
September 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
STARTS 16th September, 8 x Zoom meetings 6-8pm; DUBLINERS by James Joyce. Read our BLOG here: www.litsalon.co.uk/2025/08/29/r... and BOOK your place here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/dubl... #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #ModernistLit #IrishLiterature