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.

• The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
• The Other Language by Francesca Marciano
• The Children Act by Ian McEwan
• Cry The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher

• 19 January
• 16 February
• 16 March
• 20 April
• 25 May
• 22 June
• 20 July
• 21 September