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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
“The things people don’t say, the truths that hover just beyond language.” Join us in St Ives this October to explore Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #ModernistLiterature #BloomsburyGroup #StIves
September 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
“The things people don’t say, the truths that hover just beyond language.” Join us in St Ives this October to explore Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #ModernistLiterature #BloomsburyGroup #StIves
4-day literary study of The Waves by Virginia Woolf in St Ives from 28 September to 1 October 2025. BOOK NOW:
www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #ModernistLiterature #WomenWriters #BloomsburyGroup
www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #ModernistLiterature #WomenWriters #BloomsburyGroup
August 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
4-day literary study of The Waves by Virginia Woolf in St Ives from 28 September to 1 October 2025. BOOK NOW:
www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #ModernistLiterature #WomenWriters #BloomsburyGroup
www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #ModernistLiterature #WomenWriters #BloomsburyGroup
BOOK NOW to study Toni Morrison’s A MERCY. Tuesdays, 2, 9 & 16 September, 5.30 – 7.30pm on Zoom. MORE HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/a-me... #ToniMorrison #LiteraryZoomTalks @PBSBooks @WellReadBlackGirl @LiteraryHub
August 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
BOOK NOW to study Toni Morrison’s A MERCY. Tuesdays, 2, 9 & 16 September, 5.30 – 7.30pm on Zoom. MORE HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/a-me... #ToniMorrison #LiteraryZoomTalks @PBSBooks @WellReadBlackGirl @LiteraryHub
Woolf’s childhood summers in St Ives deeply influenced her writing. BOOK NOW www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... 4 days in St Ives reading Virginia Woolf's THE WAVES 'There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, ‘Consume me.’ #VirginiaWoolf #BloomsburyGroup #TheWaves
August 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Woolf’s childhood summers in St Ives deeply influenced her writing. BOOK NOW www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... 4 days in St Ives reading Virginia Woolf's THE WAVES 'There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, ‘Consume me.’ #VirginiaWoolf #BloomsburyGroup #TheWaves
“I dream a dream that dreams back at me” BOOK NOW to study Toni Morrison’s A MERCY. Tuesdays, 2, 9 & 16 September, 5.30 – 7.30pm on Zoom. MORE HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/a-me... #ToniMorrison
August 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“I dream a dream that dreams back at me” BOOK NOW to study Toni Morrison’s A MERCY. Tuesdays, 2, 9 & 16 September, 5.30 – 7.30pm on Zoom. MORE HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/a-me... #ToniMorrison
STARTS TONIGHT, BOOK NOW. “If I had known what the sea of love was like—so bitter—I would never have placed myself upon that ship.” TRISTAN AND ISOLDE study www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/tris... #TristanUndIsolde #SalonStudy #anglonormanpoetry
August 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
STARTS TONIGHT, BOOK NOW. “If I had known what the sea of love was like—so bitter—I would never have placed myself upon that ship.” TRISTAN AND ISOLDE study www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/tris... #TristanUndIsolde #SalonStudy #anglonormanpoetry
STARTS THIS WEDNESDAY! Loneliness and human connection as seen through Klara’s eyes in Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. 4 x Zoom study sessions, 6-27 Aug, 6-8pm BST. BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/klar... #Literature #BookDiscussion #KlaraAndTheSun #KazuoIshiguro #BookClub
August 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
STARTS THIS WEDNESDAY! Loneliness and human connection as seen through Klara’s eyes in Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. 4 x Zoom study sessions, 6-27 Aug, 6-8pm BST. BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/klar... #Literature #BookDiscussion #KlaraAndTheSun #KazuoIshiguro #BookClub
We are in today's Financial Times with Horatio Clare writing about our recent Moby Dick Afloat travel study. Check out our website for details of next year's study (and much more): www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/moby...
August 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We are in today's Financial Times with Horatio Clare writing about our recent Moby Dick Afloat travel study. Check out our website for details of next year's study (and much more): www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/moby...