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TOPICS |
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„The 1920s in England: Bloomsbury’s Views on Art and Life”: Virginia Woolf + Vita Sackville-West |
April 1994 |
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California: T.C.Boyle “Tortilla Curtain” + John Steinbeck “Cannery Row” |
December 1998 |
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Susan Sontag “The Volcano Lover” |
January 1999 |
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Tobias Wolff “The Night in Question” |
February 1999 |
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Magdalene Nabb “The Monster of Florence” |
March 2000 |
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Asian Women Writers’ Workshop “Right of Way” |
March 2001 |
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Agatha Christie & the Orient: “Mallowan. Come, Tell Me How You Live. An Archaeological Memoir” |
April 2001 |
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Rose Tremain “Evangelista’s Fan” |
May 2001 |
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Bahiyyiih Nakhjavani “The Saddlebag” |
June 2001 |
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Tony Kushner “Angels in America“ |
September 2001 |
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Aboriginal Art + Sally Morgan “My Place” |
October 2001 |
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Ireland: Anne Devlin “After Easter” + John B. Keane “Short Stories” |
December 2001 |
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“Canadian Stories”: Leonard Cohen + Sharon Butala |
January 2002 |
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Joyce Carol Oats “Blond” |
February 2002 |
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Andrew Miller “Ingenious Pain” |
April 2002 |
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Tracy Chevalier “Girl with a Pearl Earring” |
May 2002 |
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Joanne Harris “Five Quarters of the Orange” + “Blackberry Wine” |
October 2002 |
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Sally Vickers “Miss Garnet’s Angel” |
November 2002 |
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Vienna 1900: Gustav Klimt + Frederic Morton “Forever Street” + “Thunder at Twilight. Vienna 1913/14” |
January 2003 |
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Amitav Gosh “The Glass Palace” |
February 2003 |
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Paul Bowles “The Sheltering Sky” |
April 2003 |
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Clare Boothe Luce “The Women” |
June 2003 |
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J. Sobol, “Alma” – Alma Mahler-Werfel |
November 2003 |
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„Crucifixes, Mountains, Flowers & Poetry“: William Blake & D.H.Lawrence |
December 2003 |
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South Africa: Pamela Gien “The Syringa Tree” |
February 2004 |
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Richard Harris “Pompeii” |
March 2004 |
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R. Kipling “Just So Stories” |
April 2004 |
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Elizabeth George “Well-Schooled in Murder” + “Deception on his Mind” |
May 2004 |
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Samuel Pepys “Diaries” |
September 2004 |
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Monica Ali “Brick Lane” |
September 2004 |
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Geoffrey Chaucer “The Canterbury Tales” |
October 2004 |
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Tobias Jones “The Dark Heart of Italy” |
November 2004 |
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Jane Austen “Pride & Prejudice” + Karen Jay Fowler „The Jane Austen Book Club” |
November 2005 |
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Marina Lewicka “A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” |
December 2005 |
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Janie Bolitho “The Cornish Novels. A Rose Trevelyan Trilogy” |
January 2006 |
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Graham Greene “The Constant Gardener” |
March 2006 |
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Elizabeth Kostova “The Historian” |
May 2006 |
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Dan Brown “The Da Vinci Code” |
June 2006 |
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C.S.Lewis “The Chronicles of Narnia” |
June 2006 |
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Virginia Woolf “Mrs. Dalloway” |
November 2006 |
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William Somerset Maugham “Collected Short Stories” |
December 2006 |
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Joan Marble “Notes from a Roman Terrace” |
January 2007 |
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E.M.Foster “Where Angels Fear to Tread” |
February 2007 |
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“Under Vesuvius. Art & Artists in & around Naples 17th – 19th Century”: Susan Sontag, “The Volcano Lover” + “The Grand Tour” |
March 2007 |
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Washington Irving “Tales of the Alhambra” |
April 2007 |
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Antonia Fraser “Marie Antoinette” |
May 2007 |
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Tennessee Williams “The Rose Tattoo” |
June 2007 |
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Michael Grant “Cleopatra” |
October 2007 |
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“The Sea in Literature”: Ernest Hemingway “The Old Man And the Sea”, John Banville “The Sea”, Herman Melville “Moby Dick” + film “1900” |
November 2007 |
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“The Tale of Beatrix Potter” + “The Tale of Peter Rabbit & Other Stories” + “Beatrix Potter And the Lake District” |
January 2008 |
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Artemisia Gentileschi: Mary Gerrard “The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art” + Susan Vreeland “The Passion of Artemisia” |
March 2008 |
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James Joyce “Triestine Itineraries” “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” + “Ulysses” |
April 2008 |
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Salman Rushdie “The Enchantress of Florence” |
June 2008 |
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Deborah Moggach “These Foolish Things” |
October 2008 |
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Alison Weir “ Henry VIII” |
September 2008 |
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Willy Russell “Educating Rita” |
September 2008 |
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Sue Townsend “The Queen And I” + “Queen Camilla” |
November 2008 |
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Marina Lewycka “Two Caravans” |
January 2009 |
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Amanda Foreman “Georgiana. Duchess of Devonshire” |
April 2009 |
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Robert Harris “Marcus Tullius Cicero IMPERIUM” |
May 2009 |
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Nick Hornby “An Education” |
May 2009 |
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Willy Russell “Shirley Valentine” |
June 2009 |
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Jed Rubenfeld “Interpretation of Murder“ – S. Freud in America |
June 2009 |
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Amitav Gosh “Sea of Poppies” |
November 2009 |
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Louise Erdrich “The Master Butchers Singing Club” |
January 2010 |
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Barbara Quick “Vivaldi’s Virgins” |
March 2010 |
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Maggie O’Farrell “The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox” |
April 2010 |
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Harriet O’Brien “Queen Emma & the Vikings” |
June 2010 |
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The Pre-Raphaelites & Poetry |
October 2010 |
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“The British & the South Seas” Robert Louise Stevenson + Somerset Maugham |
November 2010 |
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English Writers & Venice: William Shakespeare, W.H. Auden, John Ruskin,… |
December 2010 |
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Christopher Hampton “The Talking Cure” |
January 2011 |
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“English Language Writers on the Cote d’Azur”: F. Scott Fitzgerald “Tender is the Night” + Graham Greene “Loser Takes it All” |
February 2011 |
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Charlotte Bronte “Jane Eyre” |
March 2011 |
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W. Somerset Maugham “The Painted Vail” |
April 2011 |
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Alan Bennett “The Clothes They Stood Up In” + British TV series “Keeping Up Appearances” |
June 2011 |
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Toni Morrison “Desdemona” + “A Mercy” |
September 2011 |
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Edmund de Waal “The Hare with Amber Eyes” |
November 2011 |
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Andrew Graham-Dixon “Caravaggio” |
January 2012 |
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Simon Stephens “Wastewater” |
January 2012 |
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Elizabeth Bowen “A Time in Rome” |
February 2012 |
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Richard Ford “Rock Springs” |
February 2012 |
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Deborah Moggach “These Foolish Things” |
March 2012 |
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Frederic Morton “The Rothschilds” |
May 2012 |
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“London & Dickens”: Charles Dickens “The Uncommercial Traveller” + “Dickens’ Victorian London 1839-1901” |
June 2012 |
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Carl E. Schorske “Fin-de-Siècle Vienna” |
June 2012 |
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Salley Vickers “Aphrodite’s Hat. Short Stories” |
September 2012 |
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Alice Munro “Short Stories. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” |
November 2012 |
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Glynis Ridley “The Discovery of Jeanne Baret” |
January 2013 |
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Art Forgery: Noah Charney “The Art Thief” + Patricia Highsmith ”Ripley Under Ground” |
February 2013 |
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Eric R. Kandel “The Age of Insight” |
March 2013 |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby” |
May 2013 |
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Paul Roberts “Life And Death in Pompeii And Herculaneum” |
October 2013 |
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Giles Tremlett “Catherine of Aragon” |
November 2013 |
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Ruth Lewin Sime “Lise Meitner” + Carl Djerassi “How I Beat Coca-Cola And Other Tales of One-Upmanship” |
December 2013 |
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Peter May “The Lewis Trilogy” |
March 2014 |
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Shirley McKay “Hew Cullan Mysteries” |
April 2014 |
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Frank Tallis “Death And the Maiden” + William Boyd “Waiting for Sunrise” |
May 2014 |
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Alison Weir “The Captive Queen. Eleanor of Aquitaine” |
September 2014 |
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Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh “The Flesh” + “Fleshmarket Close” + “Set in Darkness” |
November 2014 |
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Therese Anne Fowler “Z, A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald” + Elisabeth de Waal “The Exiles Return” |
December 2014 |
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David Abulafia “The Great Sea. A Human History of the Mediterranean” + Michael Pye “The Edge of the World. How the North Sea Made Us Who We are” |
February 2015 |
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Chimanda Ngozi Adichie “Americanah” + Dinaw Mengistu “Children of the Revolution” |
May 2015 |
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Peter Ackroyd “Thames. Sacred River” |
June 2015 |
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“The Bloomsbury Group”: Virginia – Vanessa – Vita |
September 2015 |
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Deborah Soloman “Utopia Parkway. The Life & Work of Joseph Cornell” |
October 2015 |
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“Fin-de-Siècle Espionage”: Robert Harris “An Officer And A Spy” + John Osborne “A Patriot for Me” |
December 2015 |
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“Cathedral Builders”: Jean Gimpel “Cathedral Builders” + Ken Follet “The Pillars of the Earth” |
February 2016 |
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Gita May “Elisabeth Vigée le Brun” |
March 2016 |
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Billie Holiday “The Lady Sings the Blues” |
May 2016 |
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Jane Gardam “Old Filth” + “The Man in the Wooden Hat” + “Last Friends” |
June 2016 |
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“Swinging London”: Nick Hornby “Funny Girl” + Sadie Jones “Fallout” |
September 2016 |
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Sarah Gristwood “ The Story of Beatrix Potter” |
November 2016 |
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Susan Vreeland “Clara & Mr. Tiffany” |
December 2016 |
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William Shakespeare: James Shapiro “1606. Shakespeare and the Year of Lear” + Janette Winterson “The Gap of Time” + Howard Jacobson “Shylock is my Name” |
January 2017 |
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Margot Lee Shatterly “Hidden Figures” |
February 2017 |
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Burma (Myanmar): George Orwell “Burmese Days” + film “The Lady” |
March 2017 |
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Jhumpa Lahiri “The Interpreter of Maladies” |
April 2017 |
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George Clare “Last Waltz in Vienna” |
May 2017 |
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“The Bronte Sisters – To Walk Invisible”: Anne Bronte “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” |
October 2017 |
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Mark Lamster “Master of Shadows. Peter Paul Rubens” |
October 2017 |
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Jean Rhys “Wide Sargasso Sea” |
November 2017 |
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Graham Swift “Mothering Sunday” + film “Gosford Park” by Robert Altman |
December 2017 |
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Canada: Leonard Cohen “The Favourite Game” + Margaret Atwood “Stone Mattress” |
March 2018 |
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Arundhati Roy “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” |
April 2018 |
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Zadie Smith “Swing Time” |
May 2018 |
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Alexander Hardcastle & the Greek Temples of Agrigento”: Alexandra Richardson “Passionate Patron. The Life of Alexander Hardcastle” |
October 2018 |
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Marina Lewycka “We Are Alle Made of Glue” + Johnny Cash Lyrics |
November 2018 |
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Corrie ten Boon & J. E. Sherill “The Hiding Place” + J. North Conway “Queen of Thieves. The True Story of Marm Mandelbaum & her Gangs of New York” |
January 2019 |
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James Baldwin “If Beale Street Could Talk” |
February 2019 |
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Natasha Pulley “The Watchmaker of Filigree Street” |
March 2019 |
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Bernard Cornwell “Fools And Mortals” |
May 2019 |
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Robert Harris “Munich” |
June 2019 |
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“Poetry Picknick”: W.B. Yeates, D.H.Lawrence, Anne Ridler, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, William Blake |
September 2019 |
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Natasha Solomons “Mr. Rosenblum’s List” |
October 2019 |
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Nancy Mitford “The Persuit of Love” + Julian Mitchell “Another Country” |
November 2019 |
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Kathrine Mansfield “Short Stories” |
February 2020 |
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Louisa May Alcott “Little Women” + Wini Moranville “The Little Women Cookbook” |
February 2020 |
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V.S.Naipaul “Miguel Street” + Alexander McCall Smith “The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” |
March 2020 |
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Tennessee Williams “Suddenly Last Summer” |
June 2020 |
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Graham Greene “Travels with my Aunt” + “The Quiet American” |
July 2020 |
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Gertrud Bell “The Desert and the Sown” + W. S. Maugham “The Gentleman in the Parlour” |
August 2020 |
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DYSTOPIAS: Aldous Huxley “Brave New World” + George Orwell “Nineteen Eighty-Four” + William Golding “Lord of the Flies” |
September 2020 |
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Adrian Goldsworthy “Hadrian’s Wall” + “Antony & Cleopatra” |
October 2020 |
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Stephen Fry “Mythos. The Greek Myths Retold” + The British Museum “Troy. Myth & Reality” |
May 2021 |
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“The Long 1950s”: Endeavour Morse + film “Summer of Rockets” |
September 2021 |
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“Mysteries of English Society, 2nd Half of the 20th Century: ”Barbara Pym “Excellent Women” + Caroline Graham “Midsomer Murder Mysteries” |
November 2021 |
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“English Women as Collectors and Scientific Pioneers, 19th Century”: Tracy Chevalier “Remarkable Creatures” + John Fowles “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” |
December 2021 |
| “Mr. Loverman”, by Bernardine Evaristo + Film “Beginners” with Christopher Plummer | April 2022 |
| “The Lady Cornaro” by Jane Howard Guernsey + “Shakespeare in Venice”, “In Venice with Henry James”, “Venice. A Maritime Republic” by Frederic C. Lane | May 2022 |
| New Commonwealth Literarture: “The Good Doctor”, by Damon Galgut + “Desertion”, by Abdulrazak Gurnah | June 2022 |
| “The Fable of the Bees”, Bernard Mandeville, 1732 + “The Magician of Lublin”, Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1960 | September 2022 |
| “Black Faces, White Faces” & “God on the Rocks”, Jane Gardam + “The Double Comfort Safari Club”, Alexander McCall Smith | October 2022 |
| “Mortal Mischief” & TV series “Vienna Blood” by Frank Tallis + “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell | November 2022 |
| Swinging London: “Utopia Avenue” by David Mitchell + Film “Blow-Up” by Michelangelo Antonioni | February 2023 |
| “The Miniaturist” by Jessie Burton | March 2023 |
| “The Island” by Victoria Hislop + “In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez | May 2023 |
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“Tales from Shakespeare” by Charles and Mary Lamb + Film “Romeo & Juliet” by Franco Zeffirelli |
October 2023 |
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“Goodbye to Berlin” by Christopher Isherwood + Film “Cabaret” + “The Marriage Portrait” by Maggie O’Farrell |
November 2023 |
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“The Scapegoat” by Daphne du Maurier + “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie + Film “And Then There Were None” |
January 2024 |
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“The Bookshop” by Penelope Fitzgerald + Film + “The Gustav Sonata” by Rose Tremain + “A Single Thread” by Tracy Chevalier |
February 2024 |