Literature Cambridge

Berlin, Brussels, Paris & Zurich, see you soon!!

The fight is not over — we still have a lot of work to do. We’re coming to Europe to chat with you about this moment in Israel-Palestine and what we’re doing on the ground to fight for justice, equality and peace.

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Read It Forward with Bookshop.org This February, we invite you to Read It Forward. 10% of all children's book sales through Bookshop.

As an indie publisher, we LOVE indie bookstores, and so we're proud to support #ReadItForward 2026! Buy ANY children's book on Bookshop.org during February, and @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social will donate 10% to @booktrust.org.uk - you'll be supporting indie bookshops with every purchase!

Live online course on the great Toni Morrison. We study:

- The Bluest Eye (1970)
- Song of Solomon (1977)
- Beloved (1987)
- Jazz (1992)

Thursdays 21 May to 11 June 2026, 6.00-8.00 pm with Alex Calder, University of Cambridge.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/morrison-26
#tonimorrison

Our next Close Reading Poetry course will explore
the poetry of Walt Whitman, one of the greatest of the 19th century American poets.

Sundays, 8 February and 15 February 2026, 2.00-4.00 pm with Mariah Whelan. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/whitman

Black and white photo of a young Iris Murdoch sitting with her chin on her hand. Books behind her.

Live online course with Miles Leeson: Iris Murdoch and the Natural World. Starts 15 March 2026.

- The Unicorn (1963)
- The Sea, The Sea (1978)
- Nuns and Soldiers (1980)
- The Good Apprentice (1985)
- The Message to the Planet (1989)

#irismurdoch

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026

#Woolf #VirginiaWoolf

Virginia Woolf’s Rooms

Our Woolf Season continues with a live online lecture and seminar every month until June 2026. We study Jacob’s Room (1922), Orlando (1928), Mrs Dalloway (1925), The Years (1937) and The Waves (1931).

Further information: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-6

Dorset to unveil statue of feminist writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer – and a cat Tribute to Sylvia Townsend Warner follows campaign to nominate overlooked women

Oh now, this is wonderful www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Hooray for Jonathan Coe name checking Dorothy Richardson again! “Random dips and scoops” is how Richardson read Proust, at least on the second reading - the word she used was “piecemeal”

Mitchell Alcrim writes about Clare Harman’s book about Katherine Mansfield on our Blog page.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/alcrim-km

And join us for our new course on Katherine Mansfield: Love Stories, live online, 19 March-20 April 2026.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/km-course-26

Photo of pink peonies with green garden background. Photo credit: Unsplash

Thanks to Mariah Whelan for a wonderful recent course on Close Reading Emily Dickinson. Mariah will lead a second course on Dickinson in November 2026. Do join us.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/emily-dickin...

Katherine Mansfield: Stories of Love. New course, live online.

We will explore her brilliant stories about the many shapes of love, its hopes, disappointments, and betrayals.

19 March to 23 April 2026, 6.00-8.00 pm

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/km-course-26

Thanks for a wonderful lecture. We were so pleased to read Malachi Whitaker’s marvellous stories and to learn more about her.

Virginia Woolf Podcast — Literature Cambridge

It was lovely to speak to Karina Jakubowicz on the Virginia Woolf podcast @litcamb.bsky.social about my book The Writer's Room -we talked about (who else) Woolf and all things writing spaces. Check it out here

1/2 Pssst. "Someone" rearranged the dedicated stand at Waterstones, Bradford to show off 3 recent books featuring Malachi Whitaker.

All are now back on their rightful shelves 😎

1. And So Did I, Malachi's 1939 memoir, reissued Sept 2025 by @bhousepress.bsky.social

2. Book of ...

Donald MacKenzie · AI’s Scale AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...

‘When it is up and running, the new gas-fired power plant near Homer City, Pennsylvania will generate 4.4 gigawatts, just a little more than the peak winter electricity demand for the whole of Scotland.’

Donald MacKenzie on the scale of AI’s resource demands.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Virginia Woolf’s Rooms.
Live online Season of lectures and seminars
September 2025 to June 2026
10 lectures, monthly.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-6
#virginiawoolf #aroomofonesown #orlando

Live online course on George Orwell: Power, Freedom, Decency, with Lisa Mullen, Cambridge.

• Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• Homage to Catalonia
• Coming up for Air
• Animal Farm
• Nineteen Eighty-Four

Tuesdays, 18 November to 16 December 2025.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/orwell-2025 #orwell

Subtlety and Strength in 20thC women’s fiction — Literature Cambridge ‘Together, these novels map out different forms of post-war womanhood, overshadowed by tradition, perhaps, yet reaching – sometimes desperately, sometimes gracefully – toward real self-sufficiency and...

Coming up in September with @litcamb.bsky.social - a new course on five female authors from the mid-late 20th Century...

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/women-p...

In a Class of Her Own: Malachi Whitaker — Literature Cambridge Guest post by Valerie Waterhouse about Malachi Whitaker’s remarkable memoir of 1939, And So Did I , republished in September 2025 by Recovered Books

In a Class of Her Own: Malachi Whitaker

Guest Post:
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/whitaker

On Malachi Whitaker's remarkable 1939 memoir, And So Did I.

@litcamb.bsky.social

New edition out 30 Sept. From

@bhousepress.bsky.social

Virginia Woolf’s Rooms is topic of @LitCamb season six Join Literature Cambridge September 2025 to June 2026 for a live online season of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf on the theme of Virginia Woolf’s Rooms.

Virginia Woolf’s Rooms is topic of @litcamb.bsky.social sixth Woolf season: 10 live Zoom lectures and/or seminars September 2025 through June 2026. #VirginiaWoolf #LiteratureCambridge bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/01/v...

Publication day today! @oxfordunipress.bsky.social publishes a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, edited and introduced by our Director, Trudi Tate. Mrs Dalloway was first published in May 1925.

We are delighted to celebrate the centenary of this great novel.
#Woolf
#VirginiaWoolf

Mrs Dalloway turns 100 — here’s why Virginia Woolf’s novel is a masterpiece Harriet Baker reflects on a century with Woolf’s iconic London story — and how the shimmering experience she had reading the book as a teenager is now one infused with melancholy

‘As the scholar @markhussey.bsky.social explains in his fascinating new book, Woolf was drawing on several streams of experience in her attempt to write the interior lives of an upper-class hostess and a shell-shocked veteran.’ -- Harriet Baker, @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Katherine Mansfield: Stories of Life and Death
Live online course on Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of the greatest short story writers of the 20thC.

Six live online lectures and seminars with leading scholars.
Wednesdays, 14 May to 18 June 2025
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/km-course-25

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Starts tomorrow.
There are just a couple of places left on Fred Parker’s new course, Comedy and Irony in the Young Jane Austen.

Four sessions, weekly on Sundays, from 4 May to 25 May 2025, 6.00-8.00 pm British Summer Time.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/austen-2025

Alan Hollinghurst · West End Vice: Queer London The queer topography of London emerges in these books like a heat map, flaring in patches round the edges at Shepherd’...

‘The fear that with the right promotion homosexuality might really catch on implies an unconscious conviction that the “unnatural” is natural after all, merely awaiting, in everyone, the licence to blossom.’

Alan Hollinghurst on an anthology of mid-century gay London: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Last chance to book a place on our new course, Comedy and Irony in the Young Jane Austen with Dr Fred Parker. Nearly sold out.

Sundays, 4 May to 25 May 2025. Live online.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/austen-2025

#janeausten

Women Writers Season, live online.
We study:

Sat. 24 May. Elizabeth Bowen, To the North

Sat. 28 June. Inez Holden, Night Shift

Sat. 20 Sept. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer will Show

Sat. 25 Oct. Malachi Whitaker, The Journey Home and Other Stories

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/women-2025