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

Cereus Blooms At Night by Shani Mootoo

When Mala, old and notoriously crazy, arrives at the Paradise Alms House, she is placed in the tender care of Tyler, a gay male nurse, and an extraordinary relationship begins to develop. Shortlisted for the 1997 Giller Prize and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award.

Everyone is welcome to the next SYP Book Club on Wed 3 Sep at 6:00pm in The Nosebag

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

Proposed future books

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Joke by Milan Kundera
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Joke by Milan Kundera
Remembrance of Things by Marcel Proust
Nausea by Jean-Paul Satre
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Books we’ve covered in the past

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Vanishing Point by David Markson
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
The Crowded Bed by Mary Cavannagh
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Wake Up by Tim Pears (author in attendance)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Persuasion by Jane Austen
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
The Brothers Karamazov by Fydor Dostoevsky