EngLit Book Club

Julia Armfield's Private Rites is a reimagination of Shakespeare's King Lear, but centers three queer women - the sister Agnes, Isla and Irene - as they navigate love and loss at the end of the world. The book club meets on January 12 at 4 pm (Esspress). Read & bring along your copy of the novel, grab a book club sticker, enjoy!
Come and join the discussion of Natasha Brown's Assembly, a novel depicting the grind of everyday prejudice as told through they eyes of a young Black British woman.


With the chair's Halloween event focused on George Orwell's novel 1984 it was only fitting to read Sandra Newman's Julia, a retelling of 1984 from Julia's perspective.