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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
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 4, 2025 at 7:17 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
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
August 26, 2025 at 2:13 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
August 21, 2025 at 3:13 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
August 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“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
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 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
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
“She watched his breath falter, not from battle, but from love's wound”. TRISTAN AND ISOLDE study STARTS next THURSDAY 7th august.book NOW: litsalon.co.uk/Studies/tris... #TristanUndIsolde #SalonStudy #anglonormanpoetry
July 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
STARTS NEXT WEDNESDAY 6th August, 4 x Zoom study sessions, 6-8pm. BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/klar... Loneliness and human connection as seen through Klara’s eyes in Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. #Literature #BookDiscussion #KlaraAndTheSun #KazuoIshiguro #BookClub
July 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
STARTS THIS FRIDAY. Book for our 2 x Zoom study on Joel Coen’s film THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH - 1st & 8th August 4-6.30pm BOOK NOW: lnkd.in/eMYixdMA #JoelCoen #DenzelWashington #FrancesMcDormand #TheTragedyOfMacbeth #FilmStudy #CoenBrothers
July 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM