SYP Oxford

Meet up with fellow book lovers who work in publishing to discuss what brought most of us here: books! Informal, friendly and fun, every member gets to nominate a book for discussion to cover a wide range of topics, genres and styles. Meet new friends and contacts – and have a darn good read.

Choice is taken in turn by each member of the Book Club, who will also lead the discussion at the next meeting. This ensures that a wide range of tastes is catered for, and hopefully we all end up reading and enjoying something we wouldn’t normally consider.

Interested?

All welcome, members and non-members
Free for everyone
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NEXT EVENT

The Loudest Sound and Nothing by Clare Wigfall

The characters in Clare Wigfall's first collection of stories are all searching for something missing. As they go about their seemingly ordinary lives, the dark undercurrent of life, with all its complications and imperfections, is gradually revealed. Skilfully wrought and perfectly pitched, the stories have been acclaimed as the work of a prodigious new talent.

Everyone is welcome to the next SYP Book Club on Wed 7 Apr at 6:00pm in All Bar One

Need more information? Contact Emily McLeod, our Book Club Co-ordinator, on

Proposed future books

The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martínez
The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza
Orange Wednesday by Leslie Thomas
In the Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips
Shame by Salman Rushdie
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Books we’ve covered in the past

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Joke by Milan Kundera
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst