Henry James called Balzac “a final authority on human nature.” Lost Illusions proves it: ambition, vanity, art, corruption — all laid bare. #Balzac #HenryJames #ClassicLit #BookDiscussion #LitSalon BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/lost...
Balzac lived like a storm: lovers, debts, wild schemes, genius. LOST ILLUSIONS shows the whole spectrum of ambition and downfall. BOOK our slow read HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/lost...
#Balzac #LostIllusions #FrenchLiterature #BookClub #LitSalon
Never has it felt more relevant to slow-read Machiavelli’s The Prince (1513) a treatise on power. READ from 16 April to 21 May BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/nicc...
#Machiavelli #Machiavellian #BookClub #ThePrince #ClassicTexts
Dive into the dreamlike labyrinth of Ishiguro's The Unconsoled, where a celebrated pianist navigates a city warped by emotion and memory. BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/kazu... #TheUnconsoled #NobelLiterature #LiteraryMasterpiece #SlowReading #MagicalRealism #BookDiscussion #LiteraryFiction
10 Swords & The Moon has been released on Amazon!. I’d be hugely grateful if you would watch and rate it asap to help the algorithms slide it up the greasy pole. If you're not in the UK, it'll be on other Amazon sites in the next couple of days) . . .
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Grief and its distortions; the Tarot as its mirror - our feature 10 Swords & The Moon is coming SOON Amazon (6th March). Sometimes the best way to look at the world is upside down. www.shopfloorfilms.com #taro #TheHoodWitch @tarottherapy.space @allnighttarot.bsky.social @rebeljourney.bsky.social
The acclaimed photographer Jan Baldwin (janebaldwin.com) on set taking photos for 10 Swords & The Moon. No A.I. garbage here. 10 Swords & The Moon is available on Amazon from 6th March UPDATES HERE: shopfloorfilms.com,
#TarotCommunity #IndieFilmmaking
6th March the DATE our film releases on Amazon. Indie filmmaking is crazy, so hope you'll support us by watching and, more important, reviewing. More here shopfloorfilms.com
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#TarotCommunity
#SpiritualJourney
#DailyTarot
10 Swords & The Moon released on Amazon FRIDAY 6th MARCH. Winner Best Romance feature at
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#LIFF, it’s a story the tarot, grief and the strange ways we connect with each other. MORE HERE:
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Study 1 Flush and Freshwater, Woolf’s experiments with life‑writing. Study 2: Between the Acts, her final, visionary novel. Includes visits to Monk’s House and Charleston. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/virginia-woo...
#VirginiaWoolf
#Modernism
#Alfriston
The Art of Ekphrasis - the moment a writer enters an artwork and brings its hidden world to life on the page. Join us for this incredible 4 week study. Starts THIS SUNDAY. Book here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/poet... #Ekphrasis #ArtAndPoetry #PoetryCommunity #VisualArt #CreativeWriting
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled remains one of the most mesmerising novels of the last century. Join us as we explore its dream logic and quiet devastation. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/kazu...
#KazuoIshiguro
#TheUnconsoled
#LiteraryFiction
#BookDiscussion
#ReadersCommunity
War, occupation, radical freedom - existentialism was born in crisis. Join Sartre, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty & more. Ready to question everything? THIS MONDAY book here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/exis... #Philosophy #Existentialism #PhilosophyQuotes #Philosopher
Study TWO superb, contemporary Bildungsroman page-turners featuring articulate and often surprisingly funny protagonists telling stories as old as the genre itself. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/grow... #ComingOfAgeLit #ContemporaryLit #bildungsroman #BookClubReads #LiteraryFiction
STARTS 7th January, written almost alongside Hamlet (c.1600), sharing its ghost‑ridden obsessions but far wilder, Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge turns Renaissance tragedy into savage parody. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/anto... #Hamlet #RenaissanceTheatre #ElizabethanDrama
Explore the wildest edges of Renaissance theatre, tracing Marston’s parody of the revenge tradition and his unflinching fascination with the macabre. 6 x Zoom meetings starts 7th January - BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/anto... #Hamlet #RenaissanceTheatre #ElizabethanDrama
Starts 1st December BOOK HERE www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/mary... Mary Poppins, as originally written by P.L.Travers in 1934, is no sugary nanny. She’s a mythic figure cloaked in domestic routine. #marypoppins, #BookClub #LiteraryAnalysis
#BookDiscussion, #CreativeReading, #ReadingGroup
STARTS Tuesday 25th November. 3-meeting study of JAMES JOYCE’s 2 short stories from DUBLINERS. Book here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/jame...
Each image, reference, description carries symbolic resonance. #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #Modernism #Bloomsday
Can poetry help us process our grief? One study meeting, three poems, to explore different kinds of grief: collective, private and ecological. 6th November 5pm-7.30pm BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/grie... #HealingThroughWords #VirtualStudyGroup #PoetryCommunity
STARTS 5th November, 6 x 2-hour meetings, ‘The Best of The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke’. #Hamlet #shakespeare #shakespearequotes #hamletquotes BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-...
Percival Everett reimagines Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to centre Black American experience. BOOK NOW 6-week study on Zoom STARTS 21 October. www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/jame... #PercivalEverett #ModernLiterature #BookClub
Henry James was deeply interested in the power of adults to have a corrupting influence on children. He returned to this theme in WHAT MAISIE KNEW. 5 x Zoom meetings' study of the novel BOOK HERE www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/what... #HenryJames #WhatMaisieKnew #LiteraryFiction #Modernism #BookClub
A 5 x Zoom study of WHAT MAISIE KNEW. In Maisie’s world, love is conditional, truth is fragmented, and care is a performance. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/what... #HenryJames #WhatMaisieKnew #LiteraryFiction #Modernism #BookClub
STARTS TOMORROW, BOOK NOW: The Art of Ekphrasis: Poetry and Painting - a 4-study meeting 5-26 October: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/poet...
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
Ekphrasis is poetic or prose response to visual art, evoking imagery even when the artwork is absent. Poetry and Painting – The Art of Ekphrasis - 4-study meeting 5-26 October BOOK NOW: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/poet...
#EkphrasisExplored #Ekphrasis #ArtInspiredPoetry #ArtLovers
All set for my Proust reread with the wonderful @litsalon.bsky.social
Virginia Woolf’s childhood summers in St. Ives shaped her. Join our 4-day deep dive into The Waves in Cornwall. 28 Sept–1 Oct. Book your place for this immersive literary study HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #TheWaves #ModernistLiterature #LiteraryFiction #StIves
“They are ever returning to us, the dead.” BOOK NOW for our 6-meeting study on Zoom of W. G. Sebald’s THE EMIGRANTS, starts 8 October at 7pm www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/the-... #Sebaldian, #PostwarLiterature, #AmReading, #BookClub
STARTS 16th September, 8 x Zoom meetings 6-8pm; DUBLINERS by James Joyce. Read our BLOG here: www.litsalon.co.uk/2025/08/29/r... and BOOK your place here: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/dubl... #JamesJoyce #Dubliners #ModernistLit #IrishLiterature
