Reading lists curated as if you were about to go — even if you're not. Each list anchors a Society retreat. Each works as standalone curation for anyone who wants better book recommendations from someone planning the trip too.
Books for the seven nights — Atlantic crossings, the literature of arrival, the Cheltenham Literature Festival reading list.
Five months of reading together — Caribbean literature, Age of Sail histories, and the books that built the islands' literary canon.
The Brontës, James Herriot, contemporary Yorkshire fiction, and the moorland canon — five months of reading before one week on the ground.
Irish women's fiction, west-of-Ireland landscape writing, and the literature of the long June light when the sun doesn't set until past nine.
Each shelf is curated to anchor a Society retreat, but you don't have to be going to read it. Books on each list arrive over months, not all at once — paced so the reading itself becomes part of the year. By the time the retreat opens, members on the list have read the same pages and arrive ready to talk.
Not going? The list still stands. Pull from any shelf the way you'd pull from a friend's well-curated bookcase.
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