The Song of Achilles - Tuesdays from 14th January

Read and discuss this modern retelling of The Iliad by award winning writer Madeline Miller

Highlights

• Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
• 7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
• Discuss this modern retelling and develop your cultural knowledge 
• Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week advanced English book club course reading and discussing the modern best-selling novel The Song of Achilles by award winning writer Madeline Miller.  Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel.  Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

A gripping tale of love, ambition and immortal fame.  This book was the winner of the Orange Women's Prize for Fiction and has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide.  It retells the story of The Iliad for modern times.  The young prince Patroclus is exiled to the court of King Peleus, and is befriended by his son, Achilles.  As the young men learn of war and medicine, their bond deepens, in spite of Achilles's mother Thetis. But when news reaches them that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must fulfill his destiny and go to war in far off Troy. Not knowing what will become of them Patroclus accompanies him, and the years that follow test everything they value.