Book Club School

Book Club School Join an online English Book Club School course to develop your English in a lively online book group From Upper Intermediate (B2) to High Advanced (C2).

Join an online English book club course to practise your English once a week on Zoom and develop your spoken accuracy and fluency. Write a weekly summary to develop your grammar and vocabulary. Listen to the author or critics and develop your comprehension, and gain cultural knowledge of the characters, location, time and place. Use and improve your English while learning something new, interestin

g and valuable. Book Club School is a unique mix between a book club and a language class. You learn something new about the books and authors, and as you discuss what you have read with others, I give feedback on your English to help you develop. It's fun, lively, and a great way to use and improve your English while meeting international people in English. The online book club normally lasts for 7 weeks and we usually read one book in this time. During the week you read the set chapters. If you like you can write a summary of this part of the book and I correct it. Then we discuss this part of the book over Zoom once a week - a maximum of 8 participants in each online book club. There is a choice of book clubs - romances, thrillers, murder mystery, historical dramas or classics. This means that you are in a group with people who share your interests. My students like this way of learning - see my reviews on Facebook. I currently have students from Switzerland, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Japan and Italy. This online book club is populated by some interesting, friendly people with an upper-intermediate or advanced level of English. There's a wide range of ages from 20s to 60s - people choose Book Club School to use English in an engaging, enjoyable way while doing something they love.

Cream tea. This is an English tradition. Do you put the cream on first, or the jam? It's a hard choice. One is what ...
29/08/2026

Cream tea. This is an English tradition. Do you put the cream on first, or the jam? It's a hard choice. One is what the people of Devon do, and the other is what the people of Cornwall do. So choose your people, and "tuck in", as we say! This cream tea was particularly excellent - it is hard to do it justice in pictures, but imagine it: the scone was warm - freshly baked from the oven. The cream was great - and not in a horrible pre-packaged pot which sadly you often get. And the strawberry jam was delicious - sweet and sharp. And you don't need "fancy" tea either - this is English breakfast tea - the tea of champions. With milk (obviously).

💬Is this your cup of tea?

I liked this sculpture very much! It's a Bruno Catalano, in Honfleur, Normandy. To me it said something about travel a...
28/08/2026

I liked this sculpture very much! It's a Bruno Catalano, in Honfleur, Normandy. To me it said something about travel and migration, about transience - impermanence, briefness, or the fleeting nature of things that pass with time. But also about the loss of identity that sometimes accompanies people who move from one country to another - a part of them is missing.

💬Your thoughts? And if you were migrating, which one book would you bring with you in your bag?

💬Do you have a book cafe like this near you? This one is in Folkestone old town - it's book themed and you can browse t...
27/08/2026

💬Do you have a book cafe like this near you? This one is in Folkestone old town - it's book themed and you can browse the books, and indeed buy them. I particularly liked the WiFi password. Ideal for the book obsessed bookworm!

23/08/2026

My Literary Skills for Readers course is for 7 weeks, starting on Monday 7th September at 13.00 CET or Thursday 10th September at 18.30 CET. Do come and join us to develop your English and skills of literature analysis. Details on website, link in bio.

This is a Banksy, painted onto a wall in Folkestone, Kent. It shows a woman looking at an empty plinth, where a piece o...
22/08/2026

This is a Banksy, painted onto a wall in Folkestone, Kent. It shows a woman looking at an empty plinth, where a piece of art should be. In Trafalgar Square in London there is a famous empty plinth which is used to site temporary artworks by contemporary artists. So here the artist Banksy is making a comment about art, and artists, and seeing. Is the woman looking at the space on the wall where graffiti art has been painted over in grey paint?

My version has the novel, The Artist, added into the mix. Hope you like it! 🙂 The novel tells the story of a journalist going to interview a famous, reclusive artist in the south of France in the 1920s. He's an ex-friend of Paul Cezanne. He is supported by his niece, Ettie, who has aspirations to be a painter herself. I really liked this book. It is a mix of genres, part historical novel, part romance, part mystery. And if you like art, this could be for you as it describes the process of artistic creation very well, and the importance of truly seeing - something Banksy no doubt approves of.

We are reading this novel on Mondays at 19.30 or Wednesdays at 13.00 CET, starting in the week beginning 7th September. Come and join us! Details on my website, link in the bio 👍

I visited Broadstairs in Kent a few days ago, which has a number of strong Charles Dickens connections. He used to come...
20/08/2026

I visited Broadstairs in Kent a few days ago, which has a number of strong Charles Dickens connections. He used to come from London on the train and stay, enjoying the sandy beach and sea air. He stayed in numerous places across the town, writing various parts of his novels. In the Dickens House Museum you can see his writing desk, his quill pen, and numerous first editions. The bay at Broadstairs is a very lovely crescent, and on the left hand end is "Bleak House", the inspiration for his famous book. Broadstairs is also the birthplace of Morelli's Gelato - some of the best ice cream in the UK!

💬Which Charles Dickens' novels have you read? Or is he still on your TBR list? 🙂

16/08/2026

The Artist book club is available on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays from the week beginning 7th September. Come and join us to read and discuss in English.

There is a really unusual concept behind this book: an instagrammer influencer shows her "idealised" life of the "tradit...
15/08/2026

There is a really unusual concept behind this book: an instagrammer influencer shows her "idealised" life of the "traditional wife" - milking the cows and making the bread on her American farm. Then, suddenly, she is no longer in 2026 but in something like 1855, and having to do it all for real, with no camera crew and support team to actually do the work, or buy the bread from the bakery....

This novel has caused a big stir. The voice of the main character is also interesting - critical, and somewhat paranoid. Why paranoid? It's comes from her existence as a high-profile online "tradwife" influencer. She has been shaped by a digital life of constant performance, public scrutiny, and a background of strict religious expectations, she constantly worries about surveillance.

We are reading this zeitgeist story on Mondays at 19.30; Tuesdays at 13.00 or Wednesdays at 17.30 CET, all starting in the week beginning 7th September. Come and join us!
Details: https://www.bookclubschool.com/collections/participant/products/yesteryear

Do you know Zadie Smith's On Beauty? Written in 2005 it won the Women's Prize for Fiction. With a setting between the ...
11/08/2026

Do you know Zadie Smith's On Beauty? Written in 2005 it won the Women's Prize for Fiction. With a setting between the US (New England) and London, On Beauty follows a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - at a liberal arts college on the US east coast. The Kipps are British-Trinidanian and dignified, whereas the Belseys are British-American and chaotic.

Professor Howard Belsey has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American who was once an activist. Their three children passionately and enthusiastically are embarking on life, leaving Howard feeling like something is missing in his. When the Belsey's eldest son Howard meets Victoria, the attractive daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, the two families find themselves clashing, culturally and personally.

This great book is very funny in places, and asks important questions - why do we fall in love? Can we protect our children from our mistakes? What makes life beautiful?

Come and join this book club course to read and discuss it in depth on Wednesdays for 7 weeks from 9th September at 18.30 CET, or on Thursdays from 10th September at 17.30 C.E.T.

Book Club School offers structured courses to help you develop your English while talking about a great novel. Each week you read or listen to a few chapters of the book, and then discuss in our online book club over Zoom. 🎧📖 You meet once a week with me to develop your English fluency and accuracy, and gain an insight into the author and literary aspects of the novel:

👍 small groups
👍 once a week for one hour
👍 talk about the stories you like
👍 native English speaker teacher
👆 Link https://www.bookclubschool.com/collections/participant/products/on-beauty

08/08/2026

Comment YES for the taster session on Monday 10th August. Let me know which session you prefer 13.00 or 18.30 CET.

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