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 Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
• Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
• Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
• The Years by Annie Ernaux

• 21 September
• 19 October
• 16 November
• 14 December
• 18 January 2024
• 15 February
• 21 March
• 18 April
• 23 May
• 20 June
• 18 July
• 19 September