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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
13.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
12.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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!
08.10.2025 09:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
05.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
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
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-...
18.09.2025 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All set for my Proust reread with the wonderful @litsalon.bsky.social
09.09.2025 19:19 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
14.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“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
10.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
06.09.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“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
02.09.2025 06:28 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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
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
21.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
17.08.2025 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“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
14.08.2025 08:57 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
07.08.2025 05:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
04.08.2025 07:39 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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...
02.08.2025 08:04 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
“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
31.07.2025 06:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
30.07.2025 07:55 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
28.07.2025 08:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“She watched his breath falter, not from battle, but from love's wound”. TRISTAN AND ISOLDE guide us into a world of forbidden desire. FROM 7th August.BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/tris... #TristanUndIsolde #SalonStudy #AngloNormanPoetry
25.07.2025 12:57 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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 2025, 6-8pm BST. BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/klar... #Literature #BookDiscussion #KlaraAndTheSun #KazuoIshiguro #BookClub
21.07.2025 07:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
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"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" Join us for a 2-meeting study on ZOOM on Joel Coen’s film THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH - 1st & 8th August 4-6.30pm BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-... #JoelCoen #DenzelWashington #FrancesMcDormand #TheTragedyOfMacbeth #FilmStudy #CoenBrothers
16.07.2025 13:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In conjunction with the exhibition at the British Museum, read our blog about #JapaneseArt HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/2025/07/02/t... BOOK OUR SALON HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/hiro... #ArtHistory #Hiroshige #ArtSalon
07.07.2025 15:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In conjunction with the exhibition at the British Museum, read our blog about #JapaneseArt HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/2025/07/02/t... BOOK OUR SALON HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/hiro... #ArtHistory #Hiroshige #ArtSalon
03.07.2025 16:04 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS’ life was marked by devotion, struggle and artistic brilliance. THIS WEDNESDAY 18 June 6-8pm, study his masterpiece, the poem The Windhover. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/gera... #TheWindhover #GerardManleyHopkins #PoetryAnalysis #PoetryStudy #LiteraryCriticism
16.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NEXT Wednesday 18 June 6-8pm, study The Windhover by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/gera... #TheWindhover #GerardManleyHopkins #PoetryAnalysis #PoetryStudy #LiteraryCriticism #PoetryReading JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: litsalon.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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