Who was Homer? Join us at The Odyssey Live! to find out ✨ 📅 Sunday 19 July 2026 📍 Theatro Technis, Camden, London NW1 ⏱️ 3pm-5pm 🎟️ Earlybird tickets £15 until 30 June with code LLS15 Book via the link in bio, and don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter! #TheOdyssey #christophernolan

Join Dr Nancy Goldstein for a FREE 'taster' session on WINTER DREAMS ahead of our 4-meeting study of The Great Gatsby (starts 29 July, 5.00–7.00 pm (BST). BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/f-sc... #FScottFitzgerald #ClassicLiterature #BookClub #AmericanLiterature #LondonEvents #Gatsby #JazzAge

So what is the Odyssey all about? 📅 Sunday 19 July 2026 📍 Theatro Technis, Camden, London NW1 ⏱️ 3pm-5pm 🎟️ Earlybird tickets £15 until 30 June with code LLS15 Book via the link in bio, and don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter! #TheOdyssey #OdysseyLive #LondonLiterarySalon #TheatroTechnis

Join us for The Odyssey Live! at Theatro Technis! 📅 Sunday 19 July 2026 📍 Theatro Technis, Camden, London NW1 ⏱️ 3pm-5pm 🎟️ Earlybird tickets £15 until 30 June with code LLS15 Book via the link in bio.

TON WED 17TH JUNE, 6–8PM The Arden Shakespeare's landmark Fourth Series launches in 2026. Dr José Pérez Díez, editor of the new King John, lectures on editing Shakespeare + panel discussion. BOOK www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/edit... #Shakespeare #ArdenShakespeare #LiteraryLondon #EnglishLiterature

BOOK NOW for our 2-hour lecture followed by a panel discussion on editing Shakespeare for the 21st Century HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/edit... #Shakespeare #ArdenShakespeare #KingJohn #LiteraryScholarship #BritishShakespeareAssociation #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryEvents #OnlineLecture

"Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!" Led by Dr Nancy Goldstein BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/keat... #poetry #keats #romanticpoetry #literature

BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/keat... In 1819, John Keats wrote six odes that remade English lyric poetry before he died aged 25. Six Thursdays 4 June–9 July, live on Zoom. #poetry #keats #closereading #booksky #literature #romanticism #lyrictradition #literature

Memory is unreliable. His first novel is still his most haunting. Book your place for our 4 x meeting study of A PALE VIEW OF HILLS here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/kazu... #KazuoIshiguro #APaleViewOfHills #BookClub #LiteraryFiction #NobelLaureate #JapaneseLiterature #BritishLiterature #Nagasaki

Join us for a 6-week deep dive into Keats’ 1819 odes with Dr Nancy Goldstein, pairing each with a modern descendant, from Stevens to Rita Dove to Anne Carson. #keats #poetry #lyrictradition #booksky #poetry #keats #literature #romanticpoetry BOOK HERE www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/keat...

Jane Eyre invites us to question social hierarchy, colonial legacy and what it truly means to live by your convictions. BOOK HERE for our 8-meeting study on Zoom www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/jane...  #janeeyre #charlottebronte #bookclub #booklover

Henry James called Balzac “a final authority on human nature.” Lost Illusions proves it: ambition, vanity, art, corruption — all laid bare. 
#Balzac #HenryJames #ClassicLit #BookDiscussion #LitSalon BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/lost...

Balzac lived like a storm: lovers, debts, wild schemes, genius. LOST ILLUSIONS shows the whole spectrum of ambition and downfall. BOOK our slow read HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/lost... #Balzac #LostIllusions #FrenchLiterature #BookClub #LitSalon

Never has it felt more relevant to slow-read Machiavelli’s The Prince (1513) a treatise on power. READ from 16 April to 21 May BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/nicc... #Machiavelli #Machiavellian #BookClub #ThePrince #ClassicTexts

Dive into the dreamlike labyrinth of Ishiguro's The Unconsoled, where a celebrated pianist navigates a city warped by emotion and memory. BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/kazu... #TheUnconsoled #NobelLiterature #LiteraryMasterpiece #SlowReading #MagicalRealism #BookDiscussion #LiteraryFiction

"Clearly, this city was expecting of me something more than a simple recital..." Hailed by the New York Times as his most original work. www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/kazu... #Ishiguro #TheUnconsoled #SurrealFiction #LiteraryReading #TheRemainsOfTheDay #DreamNarrative #ZoomBookClub #LiteraryFiction

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

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

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

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

In common with many websites around the world, ours has been affected by yesterday's internet problems. Please email us at [email protected] 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!

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

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

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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

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

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!

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

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-...

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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...

“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