2022-2023: our 65th Season
26th September 2022 – The Sonnet: radio podcast together with members’ favourite sonnets
10th October 2022 – The Promise by Damon Galgut
24th October 2022 – English Pastoral by James Rebanks
7th November 2022 – Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
21st November 2022 – Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
12th December 2022 – Christmas in Literature: members’ evening and seasonal celebration
9th Jan 2023 – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amos Towles
23rd.Jan 2023 The Height of the Storm by Florian Zeller
6th Feb 2023 – The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
20th Feb 2023 – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
6th Mar 2023 – The Manningtree Witches by A. K. Blakemore
20th Mar 2023 – Members’ evening: Cities in Literature
3rd Apr 2023 – The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
17th Apr 2023 – Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell
8th May 2023 – Back in the Day by Melvyn Bragg
22nd May 2023 – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
5th Jun 2023 – AGM and Members’ Evening – Humorous Poetry
2021-2022: our 64th Season
27th September 2021 – The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908) by G K Chesterton
11th October 2021 – Apeirogon (2019) by Colum McCann
25th October 2021 – 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019) by Elif Shafak
8th November 2021 – Selection from The Complete Short Stories of Saki (H H Munro)
22nd November 2021 – Weather (2020) by Jenny Offill
6th December 2021 – I belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain (2021) by Anita Sethi
20th December 2021 – Christmas Members’ Evening of poetry
17th January 2022 – Shuggie Bain (2020) by Douglas Stuart
31st January 2022 – Selection of short stories from Anton Chekhov
14th February 2022 – Moon Tiger (1987) by Penelope Lively
28th February 2022 – The Color of Water (1996) by James McBride
14th March 2022 – Introducing Samuel Beckett: Molloy/Waiting for Godot/Endgame
28th March 2022 – Vera (1921) by Elizabeth von Arnim
11th April 2022 – Warlight (2018) by Michael Ondaatje
25th April 2022 – An Awakening – A short story by LitSoc member Liz Minnikin
9th May 2022 – Lifeblood/City of Tomorrow (Plays) – An evening with Glyn Maxwell
23rd May 2022 – Hamnet (2020) by Maggie O’Farrell
6th June 2022 – Members’ Evening on Magical Realism
20th June 2022 – AGM and a look at the graphic novel Flake (2020) by Matthew Dooley
About us
A group of about 30 people passionate about books and reading.
Our current Chair is Sarah Evans
Get in touch
email: welwynlitsoc@gmail.com
Guests welcome
St Bonaventure’s Parish Hall
81 Parkway, Welwyn Garden City AL8 6JF
Alternate Monday evenings at 7.30 p.m.
Welwyn Garden Literary Society 