Our reading list for summer term 2025 has been completed and promises psychopathic and dystopian stories, experimental reading experiences, feminist science fiction as well as some classic fantasy. May 8, 2025: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll […]
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Our reading list for winter term 2024/2025 has been completed and promises spooky and weird, heart-breaking and heart-warming stories. November 24, 2024—post-Halloween special: Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh If you eat the bread, you’ll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. […]
We discussed Timothy Schaffert’s The Titanic Survivors Book Club on June 13, 2024. This 2024 novel follows the curator of the RMS Titanic’s second-class library, who was left stranded at the docks when the catastrophic maiden voyage began. He soon receives an invitation to a secret society of Titanic survivors. […]
Our book choices for summer term 2024 have been made and we are looking forward to carnivorous plants and lovely flowers, Titanic survivors and Neanderthal recreations, and a mixture of classics and contemporaries. We kick things off on May 16, 2024 with some classic science-fiction: The Day of the Triffids […]
We discussed Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer: A Memoir on June 15, 2023 as part of our Pride Month Special. Kobabe’s 2019 graphic novel shows the author’s own journey to eir non-binary gender identity and has been at the heart of the ongoing U.S. censorship debate. We talked about the text […]
We discussed Aiden Thomas’s Cemetery Boys on June 15, 2023 as part of our Pride Month Special. Thomas’s 2020 YA novel follows latinx trans boy Yadriel on his journey to acceptance—by himself, his brujx community, and Lady Death—and love—with Julian who kick-starts the plot as an accidentally summoned spirit and […]
Pride month sets the theme for this summer term’s June discussion session on June 15, 2023: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas&Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe Thomas’s 2020 YA novel follows a latinx trans boy engaging with the Mexican death culture and features actual magic. Kobabe’s 2019 graphic novel […]
Our book choices for summer term 2023 have been made and we are looking forward to surgeons and chemists, to time travel and queer identity. We kick things off on May 11, 2023 with romance, corpses, and mystery: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz “Hazel Sinnett is a lady […]
Our reading schedule for winter term 2022/2023 has been decided and it is a mix of murder and mystery, family and fantasy, and—above all—love. We kick things off on November 10, 2022 with a world-wide book phenomenon: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The 2018 coming-of-age and murder-mystery novel […]