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

• The Promise by Damon Galgut
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
•  Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
• The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

• 15 January
• 19 February
• 19 March
• 16 April
• 21 May
• 18 June
• 16 July
• 17 September 
• 15 October
• 19 November 
• 17 December