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<h1 id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cosmos Connections and Contemplations</h1><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When was the last time you looked up at the night sky with wide-eyed curiosity, appreciating the magic and awe of the stars? The practice of mindful stargazing is about immersing yourself in the experience of the night time and developing a first-hand, experiential knowledge of what it is not to look out at the Universe, but to &lsquo;be&rsquo; in this vast Universe of ours. <br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">During the evening we&rsquo;ll be exploring a variety of mindful stargazing practices, focussing on contemplating our place within the cosmos and our connections to it &ndash; scientifically, energetically and spiritually.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Before going outside, we&rsquo;ll practice a cosmic body scan, sensing different parts of our body and how they&rsquo;re made of stuff that was produced in stars billions of years ago. Then as we go outdoors, we&rsquo;ll spend some time immersing ourselves in the experience of the night sky as it is (clear or cloudy), and explore how we can feel part of the cosmos, at home in this vast universe of ours. We&rsquo;ll finish by contemplating some amazing images of space and exploring some of the myths and stories associated with the constellations.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Hearty supper and hot drinks included.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Note the event will go ahead whatever the weather.</p><h2 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">About Mark</h2><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">
Mark Westmoquette is an ex-professional astronomer with 10 years 
research experience, and now is a full-time yoga and mindfulness teacher
 based in London. He is the author of &#39;Mindful Thoughts for Stargazers&#39; 
(2019) and &#39;The Mindful Universe&rsquo; (2020) and has featured on BBC Radio a
 number of times about his mindful stargazing practices. Mark is also a 
Zen Buddhist teacher.</p><h2 id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Testimonials<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></h2><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The stargazing event with Mark was absolutely wonderful. The setting, the format, the food and the knowledge that Mark has totally filled my heat and heart with joy, light and awe. &nbsp;I cannot recommend this evening enough. &nbsp;If you just want to find out more of what is up there when we look up; but also find yourself totally grounded to the here and now, then this is the evening of for you. &nbsp;Mark is an absolute wonder. &nbsp;I will keep looking up Mark and dream of floating in the cosmos whilst kissing the earth with every step. &nbsp;Thank you.<br id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&ndash;&nbsp;Karen<em id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;(Nov 22)</em><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">It was a deeply connecting, experiential, immersive and overall delightful event - surprisingly undiminished by the rain and cloud cover! Tokes Farm, Dorset was a perfect venue. You have such a gift for creating a relaxed and engaging atmosphere. The way you brought together your astronomical knowledge, Zen training, yoga and chi gong teaching was and is, a great blessing. My senses were heightened and I felt relaxed, energised and engaged throughout the evening. I felt as though I had travelled to the outer reaches of the universe and back. It was a very enriching, unique opportunity and evening. Thank you!! <br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&ndash; Gail (Nov 22)<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What a thought provoking and stimulating occasion it was. I felt privileged to have had the opportunity to share that time with everyone and your guidance to reset our perspective in every way.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&ndash;&nbsp;Paul and Rosalie (Feb 23)</em></p>

Cosmic Qigong
An exploration of energy practices (qigong) in movement and stillness designed to help us find a sense of connection to our cosmic self - the view of ourselves as a being from, within, and of, the universe.

Suitable for all who have a curiosity about knowing and feeling our place as part of the universe. The movements will be gentle and accessible to all with reasonable mobility.

About Mark
Mark Westmoquette is an ex-professional astronomer with 10 years research experience, and now is a full-time yoga, qigong, meditation and Zen teacher based in London. He runs regular events and retreats based around ‘mindful stargazing’ and finding connection with the universe. He is the author of ‘The Mindful Universe’ (2020) and ’Zen and the Art of Dealing With Difficult People' (2021).

Mark Westmoquette

Mindfulness

Energy Healing

Meditation

An evening of mindful stargazing practices, focussing on contemplating our place within the cosmos and our connections to it – scientifically, energetically and spiritually. 

Cosmic Qigong, Tuesdays 8pm (ONLINE)

Online

<h3 style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Read and discuss this much-loved, funny and original story of a woman in a man&#39;s world in 1960s America&nbsp;</strong></h3><h4 style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Highlights</strong></h4><ul style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Join this book club course&nbsp;</strong>and gain&nbsp;extra motivation to read in English</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">8 hours of live classes</strong> to help you develop fluent speaking in English</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Read this engaging book&nbsp;</strong>and reflect on the changing roles of women over time</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Be corrected by an expert English teacher</strong>&nbsp;to remove errors and mistakes</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(31, 33, 36);">Practise and&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">develop your English</em>&nbsp;online in this 8 week English book club course using Lessons in Chemistry, the debut novel by Bonnie Gamus. &nbsp;<span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Each week you&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">read</em>&nbsp;some chapters,&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">discuss</em>&nbsp;them in class and&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">improve</em>&nbsp;specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">examining</em>&nbsp;literary aspects of the novel. &nbsp;Personalised feedback&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">improves</em>&nbsp;your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.</span></p><h4 style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">The Book Club book</strong></h4><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);">This debut novel set in 1960s California features the wonderful and unique Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career suffers when working a<span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">s the only woman</span><span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;in an all-male team. &nbsp;A forced change of career leads to her&nbsp;</span>becoming the&nbsp;<span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">host of a TV cooking show, <span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Supper at</span> <span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Six, and the ability to influence millions of women.</span></span><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"></div><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);">This is a witty, highly observant and amusing story, original and thought-provoking.</div><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);">&#39;Sparky, rip-roaring, funny, with big-hearted fully formed, loveable characters &#39;SUNDAY TIMES<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&#39;The most charming, life-enhancing novel I&#39;ve read in ages. Strongly recommend&#39;&nbsp;INDIA KNIGHT</div><ul style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Genre: Historical fiction; humorous fiction</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Language:&nbsp;American English; Modern</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Suitable for: people new to reading in English - Upper-Intermediate to Advanced</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Text: Original</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Length: Average -&nbsp;<span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">119,600 words</span></li></ul><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"></div><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"></strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Geoff says:</strong></p><blockquote fr-original-style="" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(94, 53, 177); color: rgb(94, 53, 177); margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 5px; box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" data-sanitized-data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"This is a much loved book, winner of <span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award and the&nbsp;</span><span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">British Book Awards Author of the Year. &nbsp;Amusing, touching and thought-provoking, this is a highly enjoyable read written in a clear, simple style.</span>"</span></i></em></p></blockquote></div>

Read this gripping thriller and discuss the struggle to attain supreme power in Ancient Rome
Highlights
Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
Discuss this novel and learn about the life of Cicero and politics and power in ancient Rome
Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book club course using Imperium by Robert Harris. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book
Robert Harris, the master of innovative historical fiction, introduces us to the world of Roman politics with his portrayal of the rise of Marcus Cicero, a young Roman senator. The world of intrigue and electoral corruption is both remarkably similar to our own, while also being very different. 
The story of Cicero's rise is told through Tiro, Cicero's secretary and slave who invented shorthand and wrote numerous books, including a celebrated biography of the great orator, which was lost in the dark ages. Imperium is therefore the re-creation of Tiro's missing masterpiece, telling the first part of the story of Cicero alongside Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other significant Romans.

 Geoff says:
"This is the first book of the "Cicero trilogy" - a gripping read, full of drama and suspense and a fascinating portrayal of life in Rome" 


Book Club School

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English language book club to use and improve your English.  Qualified and experienced British English teacher.

Imperium - English Book Club Course -Mondays from 8th September

General Admission

Read and discuss this must-read emotional page-turner about a family separated by the Berlin Wall
Highlights
Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
Discuss family bonds, the effects of war and communication within families
Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week upper-intermediate English book club course reading and discussing Josie Ferguson's debut novel The Silence in Between. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book
Set over two time periods – the Second World War and the events in Berlin in 1961 - The Silence in Between examines the unbreakable ties of family, the resilience of women, and what they will do to protect the ones they love.
Lisette is in hospital with her new-born baby boy. The doctors tell her to go home and get some rest, that he’ll be fine. But when she awakes on 13 August 1961, the border between East and West Berlin has closed. Lisette is in the east, while her baby is in the west. But this is not the first time she has lived in a divided city.

Lisette's teenage daughter, Elly, has always struggled to understand the distance between herself and her mother. Can Elly now find a way to reach her mother and bridge the silence?

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE
ONE OF INDEPENDENT'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF THE YEAR

'An emotionally resonant debut full of music and menace' Mail on Sunday

'A hauntingly beautiful exploration of love, family and societal unrest' Glamour

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Geoff says:

"This novel was recommended to me by one of my students as a gripping, must-read book. And right from the start it grabs you. Unputdownable!" 


The Silence In Between - English Book Club Course - Mondays from 8th September

Read and discuss this much-loved, funny and original story of a woman in a man's world in 1960s America 
Highlights
Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
Read this engaging book and reflect on the changing roles of women over time
Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book club course using Lessons in Chemistry, the debut novel by Bonnie Gamus. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book
This debut novel set in 1960s California features the wonderful and unique Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career suffers when working as the only woman in an all-male team. A forced change of career leads to her becoming the host of a TV cooking show, Supper at Six, and the ability to influence millions of women.

This is a witty, highly observant and amusing story, original and thought-provoking.
'Sparky, rip-roaring, funny, with big-hearted fully formed, loveable characters 'SUNDAY TIMES

'The most charming, life-enhancing novel I've read in ages. Strongly recommend' INDIA KNIGHT

Geoff says:

"This is a much loved book, winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award and the British Book Awards Author of the Year. Amusing, touching and thought-provoking, this is a highly enjoyable read written in a clear, simple style."


Lessons in Chemistry English Book Club Course - Tuesdays from 9th September

<h3 style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Read and discuss this fantastic modern classic - a literary tour-de-force credited with the birth <span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">of the dark academia genre</span></strong></h3><h4 style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Highlights</strong></h4><ul style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Join this book club&nbsp;</strong>and gain&nbsp;extra motivation to read in English</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">8 hours of live classes</strong> to help you develop fluent speaking in English</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Discuss charisma, friendship&nbsp;</strong>and narrative style in this gripping novel</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Be corrected by an expert English teacher</strong>&nbsp;to remove errors and mistakes</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(31, 33, 36);">Practise and&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">develop your English</em>&nbsp;online in this 8 week English book club course using The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. &nbsp;<span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Each week you&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">read</em>&nbsp;some chapters,&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">discuss</em>&nbsp;them in class and&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">improve</em>&nbsp;specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">examining</em>&nbsp;literary aspects of the novel. &nbsp;Personalised feedback&nbsp;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">improves</em>&nbsp;your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.</span></p><h4 style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">The Book Club book</strong></h4><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"></div><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"></div><div style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"></strong>This book is a modern classic - one of the finest books written in the last 50 years. &nbsp;<span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Donna Tartt went on to write the best-selling "The Goldfinch" but this was her debut novel that shook the literary world with its brilliance in 1992.</span> It is a "dark academia" genre - about a group of super clever university students and their classics professor at <span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">a New England university college. &nbsp;The book opens with a murder and as we read we discover how the group of friends bonded at college and what happened next. &nbsp;It is brilliantly narrated by liberal Richard Papen who describes the excitement of new and challenging friends and ideas. But the search for a life away from the mundane leads them to new and dangerous thoughts.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">"A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction"&nbsp;The Times</p><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">&#39;Irresistible and seductive&#39; Guardian<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&#39;Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled&#39; New York Times</p><ul style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Genre: Psychological fiction; mystery; dark academia; thriller</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Language:&nbsp;American English; Modern</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Suitable for: people&nbsp;used to reading in English - Advanced</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Text: Original</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Length:&nbsp;Longer than average -&nbsp;<span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">167,141</span><span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;words</span></li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">G</strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">eoff says:</strong></p><blockquote fr-original-style="" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(94, 53, 177); color: rgb(94, 53, 177); margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 5px; box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" style="font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" data-sanitized-data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"This is one of my favourite books and I can&#39;t wait to read it again! &nbsp;It is brilliantly written, with a gripping, powerful narrative<span data-mce-fragment="1" data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment="1" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">. &nbsp;An absolute must-read book by this Pulitzer Prize winning author.</span>"</span></i></em></p></blockquote></div>

Read and discuss this fantastic modern classic - a literary tour-de-force credited with the birth of the dark academia genre
Highlights
Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
Discuss charisma, friendship and narrative style in this gripping novel
Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book club course using The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book
This book is a modern classic - one of the finest books written in the last 50 years. Donna Tartt went on to write the best-selling "The Goldfinch" but this was her debut novel that shook the literary world with its brilliance in 1992. It is a "dark academia" genre - about a group of super clever university students and their classics professor at a New England university college. The book opens with a murder and as we read we discover how the group of friends bonded at college and what happened next. It is brilliantly narrated by liberal Richard Papen who describes the excitement of new and challenging friends and ideas. But the search for a life away from the mundane leads them to new and dangerous thoughts.
"A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction" The Times
'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian

'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times
Genre: Psychological fiction; mystery; dark academia; thriller
Language: American English; Modern
Suitable for: people used to reading in English - Advanced
Text: Original
Length: Longer than average - 167,141 words

Geoff says:
"This is one of my favourite books and I can't wait to read it again! It is brilliantly written, with a gripping, powerful narrative. An absolute must-read book by this Pulitzer Prize winning author."


The Secret History - English Book Club Course -  Tuesdays from 9th September

Read and discuss this dazzling story set in London and the Middle East, in the modern day and in Victorian England linked by the epic poem of Gilgamesh 
Highlights
Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
Discuss storytelling, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, the past
Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week advanced English book club course reading and discussing Elif Shafak's There are Rivers in the Sky. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book
Elif Shafak is a British Turkish novelist. There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, enchanting novel focusing on three characters, in three different times and places, all somehow touched by the Mesopotamian poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh. As well as a gripping story it is also a story of the preciousness of water - the characters live along the banks of the River Tigris and the River Thames in London.
In 1840 London, Arthur is born next to the unpleasant, polluted River Thames. Arthur has a remarkable memory, which will help him to escape poverty, by joining a book publishers. And one book sparks his interest: Nineveh and Its Remains.

In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is going deaf. Consequently, her grandmother wants to travel to the family’s ancestral lands along the Tigris in Iraq to baptize her in a special temple. But how to cope to the rising presence of ISIS in the area?

In 2018 London, Zaleekah, a newly divorced hydrologist, escapes from her husband by moving into a houseboat on the Thames. Things are looking bleak for her, until a strange book about her homeland changes everything.

*****

WINNER OF THE GORDON BOWKER PRIZE 2025
WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS SPRING COLLECTION
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION

‘Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature’ Ian McEwan

'Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann

'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi
Geoff says:

"This is a remarkable piece of storytelling. It manages to combine and unify the different characters and places into a compelling story that helps us to reflect on great sweeps of history, while also underlining the preciousness and significance of water in our history and culture." 


There are Rivers in the Sky - English Book Club Course - Tuesdays from 9th September

Imperium - English Book Club Course -Wednesdays from 10th September

Read and discuss this humorous, life-affirming story of friendship, self-discovery and a reflection on life
Highlights
Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
Read this fun and lively book and discuss friendship, relationships what it means to live a fulfilled life 
Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes
Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book club course using The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book
Harold Fry is a recently retired man living a conventional, somewhat boring life with his wife Maureen who is irritated by almost everything he does. Then one morning he receives a letter from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years - Queenie Hennessy who is dying and is writing to say goodbye.

He quickly writes a reply but realises that he can't post this - he needs to visit her and deliver his message in person - walking the six hundred miles between them. The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry begins.

Throughout his walk he meets different characters some of whom help him to remember who he was and who he is. His memories come flooding back as he considers his life from a different perspective.

'Impossible to put down' TIMES
'Life-affirming delight. A comic pleasure' WOMAN AND HOME
'Profoundly moving' RICHARD MADELEY

Geoff says:

"This is a much loved book, amusing, charming and thought-provoking. Over 6 million copies sold and a hit movie based on this book!"


The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - English Book Club Course - Wednesdays from 10th September

There are Rivers in the Sky - English Book Club Course - Wednesday from 10th September

Read and discuss this charming and uplifting story of friendship, storytelling and the stories we tell or don't tell 
Highlights
Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
Read this charming book and discuss friendship and openness 
Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book club course using British author Sally Page's debut novel The Keeper of Stories. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book
Janice is a cleaner of other people's houses. People seem to enjoy telling her their stories, and soon Janice is collecting them …. However, when Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B – an intelligent older woman - she finally meets someone who understands that Janice has her own story to tell. Can Janice be persuaded to be more than the "keeper" of stories?

Geoff says:
"This is an enchanting, uplifting and fun book, much loved by readers, written in a light and amusing style."


The Keeper Of Stories - English Book Club Course - Thursdays from 11th September

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