Why do people take challenging journeys into the unknown? Deliberate flight from the unbearable? Pursuit of a dream? Or perhaps they have been swept, against their will, onto life-changing paths. Whatever the scenario, there is always a story to tell. Our group focuses on novels where protagonists are geographically and/or spiritually far from home, on what has prompted the journey and on how the new land shapes their lives.

Led by Mary Harries Magnusson and Gulseren Kozak-Isik.

• A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
• The Magician by Colm Tóibín
• The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli
• The Searcher by Tana French
• Dear Life by Alice Munro
• The Postcard by Ann Berest
• The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
• Just Kids by Patti Smith
• The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

• 18 July
• 19 September
• 17 October
• 14 November
• 12 December
• 16 January 2025
• 13 February
• 13 March
• 10 April
• 15 May
• 19 June
• 17 July