Individual Book Club in English
Individual Book Club in English
Individual Book Club in English
Individual Book Club in English
Individual Book Club in English
Individual Book Club in English
Individual Book Club in English
Individual Book Club in English
Individual Book Club in English
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Individual Book Club in English

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Improve your fluency & accuracy with an individual Book Club in English using one of the books below 

Highlights

  • Join this individual book club to quickly improve your English fluency & accuracy  
  • Between 3-10 hours of live 1:1 classes depending on the length of the book to help you develop fluent speaking in English
  • Read the book at home and immerse yourself in authentic English
  • Learn English 1:1 & be corrected by your private English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this individual English book club course.  Choose one of the books from the book club selection and discuss with Geoff when to start and how long you need to read it.  Each week you read some chapters, write a summary, discuss them with Geoff, and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar.  Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

One to One English Book Clubs are flexible and can be taken on the following books.  The suggested minimum course length is written below - it can be longer if you want to read fewer pages each week.  Contact Geoff to agree a day, time and number of weeks and then book a course above:

Upper-Intermediate (B2)

3 weeks

Coelho, Paulo - The Alchemist

Yagisawa, Satoshi - Days At The Morisaki Bookshop

Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen

4 weeks

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

Chevalier, Tracy - Girl With A Pearl Earring

Coe, Jonathan - Mr Wilder & Me

Hoover, Colleen - It Ends With Us

Hoover, Colleen - Verity

McCall Smith, Alexander - The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Michaelides, Alex - The Silent Patient

6 weeks

Feeney, Alice - Rock Paper Scissors 

Garmus, Bonnie - Lessons in Chemistry

Galbraith, Robert -  The Cuckoo's Calling

Haddon, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Haig, Matt - How to Stop Time

Haig, Matt - Midnight Library

Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train

Jenkins Reid, Taylor - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Jewell, Lisa - The Truth about Melody Browne

Jewell, Lisa - None of This Is True

Kuang, Rebecca F. - Yellowface

Osman, Richard - The Bullet That Missed

Osman, Richard - The Last Devil To Die

Thorn, Tracey - Bedsit Disco Queen

Tolkien, JRR - The Hobbit

Zevin, Gabrielle - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Advanced (C1)

4 weeks

Keegan, Claire - Foster & Small Things Like These

Salinger, JD - The Catcher In The Rye

Schlink, Bernhard - The Reader

5 weeks

Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey

Ellis, Brett Easton - Less Than Zero

Lloyd-Barlow, Viktoria - All The Little Bird Hearts

6 weeks

Austen, Jane - Emma

Austen, Jane - Mansfield Park

Austen, Jane - Persuasion

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice 

Gilbert, Elizabeth - City of Girls

Honeyman, Gail - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner

Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood

Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere

 

Osman, Richard - The Thursday Murder Club

Osman, Richard - The Man Who Died Twice

Strout, Elizabeth - Olive Kitteridge

Advanced (C2)

3 weeks

Barnes, Julian - The Sense of An Ending

Barnes, Julian - The Only Story

Chopin Kate, - The Awakening

McEwan, Ian - The Cockroach

4 weeks

Angelou, Maya - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol

Mansfield, Katherine - Bliss & Other Stories

Mansfield, Katherine - The Garden Party

McEwan, Ian - Enduring Love

McEwan, Ian - The Children Act

McEwan, Ian - Nutshell

Süskind, Patrick - Perfume

5 weeks

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby

Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go

Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway

6 weeks

Auster, Paul - The New York Trilogy

Barbary, Muriel - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Bron, Charlotte - Jane Eyre

Bron, Emily - Wuthering Heights

Evaristo, Bernardine - Girl, Woman, Other

Galgut, Damon - The Promise

Healey, Emma - Elizabeth is Missing

McEwan, Ian - Atonement

McEwan, Ian - Saturday

Miller, Madeline - Circe

Miller, Madeline - The Song of Achilles

Morrison, Toni - Beloved

O'Farrell, Maggie - The Marriage Portrait

Orwell, George - 1984

Owens, Delia - Where The Crawdads Sing

Rooney, Sally - Beautiful World, Where Are You

Rooney, Sally - Intermezzo

Roth, Philip - American Pastoral

Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea

Shaffer & Burrows - The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

Shamsie, Kamila - Home Fire

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein

Smith, Zadie - White Teeth

Stevenson, RL - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Tartt, Donna - The Secret History

Turton, Stuart - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle


Geoff says:

"This is a great way to focus on your needs and language, and to make fast progress."

Only 1 place available.  Click Add to Cart to reserve your place.

Dates & time
  • Agree with Geoff in advance to suit you
Age 16+
Online class size Maximum 1 participant, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion
What you learn
  • To confidently speak and debate 
  • To overcome any gaps by paraphrasing or rephrasing
  • To eradicate errors in grammar and pronunciation 
  • To develop and extend areas of high level vocabulary
  • To be immersed in the natural patterns of English syntax
  • To gain a deeper understanding of cultural issues
  • To perfect & enhance your English through summarising
Your teacher
  • Geoff Hardy-Gould, BSc, MBA, CTEFLA, DTEFLA. 
  • Over 20 years' experience of UK language schools. 
  • Speaker at:  2024 IATEFL Conference; 2023 IATEFL TechLit! Exploring crossovers between technology and literature; 2022 Extensive Reading Foundation; 2021 TESOL Italia