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.

• Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

• The Years by Annie Ernaux

• A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

• A Lover’s Discourse by Xiaolu Guo

• The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals by Michael Kernan

• The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

• A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar

• The Magician by Colm Tóibín

• 18 January 2024
• 15 February
• 21 March
• 18 April
• 23 May
• 20 June
• 18 July
• 19 September