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April 2026
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf in Alfriston: Study 1: Flush & Freshwater, 9-12 April 2026
Virginia Woolf in Alfriston: Study 2: Between the Acts, 16-19 April 2026
Virgil’s Aeneid in Greece
LITERATURE
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov Signs and Symbols (A LitSalon Short)
Honoré de Balzac’s Lost Illusions
HISTORY
Machiavelli’s The Prince
CREATIVE WRITING
‘Loosening the ligaments’: a LitSalon Community of Writers – Block 2
POETRY
Shakespeare’s Sonnets – The Slow Read #10
The Ode – John Keats & Wallace Stevens (A LitSalon Short)
May 2026
DRAMA
CLASSICS
Sophocles: Four Great Tragedies
Homer’s Odyssey in Greece
Homer’s Odyssey live on Zoom
LITERATURE
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro and Japan (A LitSalon Short)
POETRY
T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
Shakespeare’s Sonnets – The Slow Read #11
June 2026
LITERATURE
Revisiting Alice in Wonderland (a LitSalon Short)
DRAMA & LITERATURE
Lecture & panel discussion: Editing Shakespeare for the 21st Century – The Arden Shakespeare & Beyond
HISTORY
The Stonewall Riots & the Roots of the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement
PHILOSOPHY & LITERATURE
Montaigne’s Essays (1580-1595)
POETRY
Reinterpreting Beowulf – A LitSalon Short
TRAVEL
Jane Eyre on the Moors
July 2026
LIVE EVENT
The Odyssey Live! as Christopher Nolan’s film arrives in cinemas, we’re performing key passages from the original LIVE!
LITERATURE
William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, the first in our study series ‘Faulkner and His Children’
W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
POETRY
Beowulf – A New Feminist Translation
“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n”: Encounter Milton’s Epic Vision in Paradise Lost
August 2026
LITERATURE & FILM
Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice – word & image
LITERATURE
Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
TRAVEL
Moby Dick afloat (FULLY BOOKED)
September 2026
DRAMA
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in Cornwall
LITERATURE
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
October 2026
LITERATURE
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time – The Guermantes Way (early)
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time – The Guermantes Way (later)
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves in Cornwall
2026 Travel Studies
Travel studies planned for 2026 include our second Moby Dick Afloat voyage, trips to Alfriston to explore the writing of Virginia Woolf, and visits to the Greek island of Agistri to read Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Odyssey. Click on the page links below to read more about these travel studies and arrangements for booking, or to register your interest.
April 2026: Virginia Woolf in Alfriston
April 2026: Virgil’s Aeneid in Greece
May 2026: Homer’s Odyssey in Greece
June 2026: Jane Eyre on the Moors
August 2026: Moby Dick Afloat – WE HAVE NOW CLOSED APPLICATIONS FOR THIS STUDY IN 2026, PLEASE EMAIL US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PUT ON A LIST OF READERS INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR VOYAGE IN 2027.
September 2026: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in St Ives
October 2026: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves in St Ives
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