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

• 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
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• The Return – Fathers Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Mater
• Kingmaker:  Pamela Churchill Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power by Sonia Purnell
• The Scent of the Night by Andrea Camilleri
• The Promise, by Damon Galgut
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

• 13 March
• 10 April
• 15 May
• 19 June
• 17 July
• 18 September
• 16 October
• 20 November
• 18 December
• 15 January 2026
• 19 February