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

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

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

“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

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

Eventually 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.

"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

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

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

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

NEXT 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=...

So heartened by hearing Horatio Clare talking about his new book on Radio 4 Today on Thursday. www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

The Windhover by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS - an evening's study on Wed 18 June 6-8pm: 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=...

Wed 18 June 6-8pm, study GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS: THE WINDHOVER with the London Literary Salon BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/gera... #TheWindhover #GerardManleyHopkins #PoetryAnalysis #PoetryStudy #LiteraryCriticism #PoetryReading JOIN MAIL LIST: litsalon.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

There's a long piece in today’s Observer about Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway including quotes from Toby at the London Literary Salon and a reminder of our Cinema Museum showing of The Hours on Friday 13 June, Dalloway Day. Tickets still available, join us if you can!

TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, 6-8pm on ZOOM (UK BST). Explore the genius of Sappho’s Hymn to Aphrodite. Her words on love resonate today. ‘I pray thee, break not my spirit.’ BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/sapp.... #Sappho #AncientGreece #Poetry

LAST CHANCE TO BOOK - STARTS TOMORROW. Almodóvar’s All About My Mother employs melodrama to interrogate identity, gender, and societal norms. 1 and 8 June 2025, 4:00–6:30 PM. Book now: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-... #Almodovar #Melodrama #QueerTheory #FilmStudies

All About My Mother employs melodrama to interrogate identity, gender, and societal norms, using heightened emotion to provoke critical reflection. Study - Sundays, 1 and 8 June 2025, 4:00–6:30 PM. Book now: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-... #Almodovar #Melodrama #QueerTheory #FilmStudies

‘I pray thee, break not my spirit.’ Sappho’s words on love’s chase resonate today. Explore her genius Wed 4 June #Sappho #AncientGreece #Poetry BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/sapp...

Almodóvar’s All About My Mother employs melodrama to interrogate identity, gender, and societal norms. Sundays, 1 and 8 June 2025, 4:00–6:30 PM. Book now: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-... Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Va7... #Almodovar #Melodrama #QueerTheory #FilmStudies

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." Join us to explore Whitman’s vibrant verse. BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/walt... Starts Wed 4 June on Zoom #WaltWhitman #Poetry #Literature

mailchi.mp/litsalon/may... Lots of poetry, prose, art, cinema and travel studies in our May newsletter! #MrsDalloway #MobyDick #VirginiaWoolf #Almodovar