The London Literary Salon

Ulysses 2019 starts 15 January
"Plenty to see and hear and feel yet. Feel live warm beings near you. They aren't going to get me this innings. Warm beds: warm full blooded life." ― Ulysses
Great Ideas, Great Books starts January 2019
Engage with key texts and ideas in the western intellectual tradition, ancient through modern, in this monthly study. New section starting late January 2019
Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient starts 23 January 2019
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Homer's Iliad starts 09 January 2019
“Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls. . .”
Lit Salon Book Club 06 January 2019: Olga Tokarczuk's Flights
The monthly London Lit Salon Book Club reads the finest 20th and 21st century literature from around the world.
Marcel Proust Study continues 17 January
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
Toby Brothers, Salon Director
Coming studies 2019: Joyce's Ulysses, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, The English Patient, Proust . . .

Welcome to the London Literary Salon

The London Literary Salon creates community around the study of great literature.

The Salon offers unique and inclusive discussion-based studies of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama—weaving the ideas of participants with questions the books raise about what it is to be human.

Carefully facilitated, each study is dynamic and expansive in scope. Studies range from one-meeting intensives to six-month odysseys.

See our current offerings below.

Upcoming Salons

(click on course name for more information)

Course Name	Location	Duration	Date	Time
Proust in France	Illiers France	Weekend (Friday- Sunday)	April 26-28 2019	All day
Spontaneous Philosophy	Rudolf Steiner House, Marylebone	Monthly no-prep study	Next meeting 26 March	Tuesdays 6:00-8:30 PM
Woolf's Waves in St Ives Weekend study ONE SPACE	St Ives Cornwall	Weekend (Friday- Sunday)	April 5th-7th 2019	Eight hours over the weekend
Moby Dick by Herman Melville	Kentish Town	Eight weeks	13 MAY - 8 JULY 2019	Mondays 13:30-15:30 PM
Homer's Odyssey in Greece	Island of Agistri, Rosy's Little Village	One week with two prep meetings	1-8 May 2019
Lit Salon Book Club: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov	South London, West Norwood	Ongoing monthly study	07 April 2019	Sundays 6:30-8:30 PM
Great Ideas, Great Books—New Section	Marylebone	Monthly study	Starting 22 January 2019	Tuesdays 6:00-8:30 PM
St Ives Lighthouse Intensive study STUDY FULL	St Ives Cornwall	One weekend with two hour prep	Weekend May 17th-19th & May 13th	All day
Proust In Search of...Vol. I Swann's Way	Kentish Town	Eight weeks	15.5.19--3.7.19	7-9 PM
Beloved Salon Intensive FULL	Kentish Town	Four hours: One meeting	24 April 2019	6-10 PM

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As the 2011 Man Booker Prize is awarded, we take a look at the history of the UK's foremost literature prize
• From the archive, 19 October 1984: Anita Brookner, 6-1 outsider, wins the B

So rioters shunned bookshops because they didn't offer anything they wanted? That points to a debilitating exclusion from a civilised culture

Very hard to bring off without bathos, final moments wrong-footed even Charles Dickens and George Eliot

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