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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I started writing THE REMAINS OF THE DAY because of my suspicion that, to some extent, we are all butlers". Kazuo Ishiguro’s masterpiece. STARTS 7th October BOOK HERE: litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-...

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - The London Literary Salon

Six-meeting study of Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day, led by Lewis Ward live on Zoom.

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

STARTS TONIGHT AT 5PM (British time). William Faulkner’s masterpiece about antebellum life in America’s Deep South. LAST CHANCE TO BOOK: litsalon.co.uk/Studies/absa...

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Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner - The London Literary Salon

Seven-week study of Wiliam Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! led by John Allemand and Deborah Lawunmi live on Zoom.

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I started writing THE REMAINS OF THE DAY because of my suspicion that, to some extent, we are all butlers". Kazoo Ishiguro’s masterpiece. BOOK HERE: litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-... STARTS 7th October #BookSky #KazuoIshiguro #Books

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A little taste of what you can expect at The Odyssey Live! ✨ Alexis Cambanis reads the opening of The Odyssey, the Proem, in Greek. 🎟️ Tickets are available via the link in bio. #theodyssey #londonliterarysalon #homer #greekmythology #londonevents

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One place left SO BOOK NOW. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! combines Faulkner's unflinching reckoning with slavery and race with his dizzying prose. BOOK HERE: litsalon.co.uk/Studies/absa... #Faulkner #AbsalomAbsalom #SlowReading #ClassicLiterature #Bookstagram

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m really excited to share that following the wonderful response to The Odyssey Live! at Theatro Technis, we’re bringing it back for two new London events this autumn! 🎟️ Tickets are available via the link in bio. #theodyssey #londonliterarysalon #homer #greekmythology #londonevents

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why I love Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! READ HERE: litsalon.co.uk/why-i-love-f... #BookSky #Faulkner #ClassicLit

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! combines Faulkner's unflinching reckoning with slavery and race with his dizzying prose. BOOK HERE: litsalon.co.uk/Studies/absa... #Faulkner #AbsalomAbsalom #SlowReading #ClassicLiterature #Bookstagram

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nabokov’s Lolita STARTS 17 September, on Zoom. BOOK HERE: litsalon.co.uk/Studies/loli... #LolitaStudy #Nabokov #CloseReading #LiteraryAnalysis #BookDiscussion

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BOOK HERE to join. litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-... FIVE meetings on Zoom, 6-8pm STARTS 7th September MONDAYS. THE VISIONARY ART OF WILLIAM BLAKE. "Without Contraries is no progression." #WilliamBlake #SongsOfInnocenceAndExperience #PoetryCommunity #LiteratureCourse #ReadingGroup #LiteraryStudy

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

TOMORROW NIGHT, join our FREE taster session ahead of our upcoming study of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece THE GREAT GATSBY. Read WINTER DREAMS with us - BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/f-sc... #TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #WinterDreams #AmericanLiterature

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Odyssey Live! is almost here! 😊 📅 Sunday 19 July 2026 📍 Theatro Technis, Camden, London NW1 ⏱️ 3pm-5pm 🎟️ Use code LLS15 Book via the link in bio, and don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter! #theodyssey #camdenevents #theatrelondon #christophernolan

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Join our FREE taster session of WINTER DREAMS, the short story Fitzgerald later expanded into his masterpiece THE GREAT GATSBY. JUST A FEW PLACES REMAINING. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/f-sc... #TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #WinterDreams #AmericanLiterature #ClassicLiterature #BookClub

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Join us at The Odyssey Live! 🥰 📅 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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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.

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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...

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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...

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

In common with many websites around the world, ours has been affected by yesterday's internet problems. Please email us at litsalon@gmail.com 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!

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Check out our November newsletter if you haven't already seen it! mailchi.mp/litsalon/nov...

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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-...

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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!

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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