Yellowface - Thursdays from 16th January

Yellowface - Thursdays from 16th January

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Read and discuss this global best-selling satirical & entertaining thriller set in the publishing industry

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
  • Read this thriller set in the publishing industry to discuss questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation 
  • Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book club course using Yellowface by R.F. Kuang.  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

Author Athena Liu is a literary phenomenon while her friend June Hayward is a nobody, and is jealous. So when Athena dies in a freak accident, June sees nothing too wrong in stealing her unpublished work and publishing it herself under the name Juniper Song.  When questions start to be asked, what will June do to protect her new-found success...? 

Yellowface raises interesting contemporary questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, while being gripping and highly readable.

‘Ingenious, astute, hugely entertaining’ David Nicholls

‘Hard to put down. Harder to forget’ Stephen King

 Geoff says:

"It's funny that this book has been a publishing sensation - given that it satirizes the book publishing industry! It was Amazon book of the year, and the Fiction Book of the Year 2024 at the British Book Awards."

Only 8 places available.  Click Add to Cart to reserve your place.

The book
  • Genre: Thriller; Satire
  • Language: American English; Modern
  • Suitable for: people new to reading in English - Upper Intermediate
  • Text: Original 
  • Length: Average - 85,324 words
Dates & time
  • Thursdays from 16th January-27th February
  • 18.30 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU)
  • 17.30 (UTC+0/GMT+0) London, UK, Portugal
  • 19.30 Greece, Ukraine
  • 20.30 Turkey, Saudi Arabia
  • 12.30 EDT Boston/New York
Age 18+
Online class size Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion
What you learn
  • To express your ideas clearly, concisely & accurately
  • To improve specific areas of grammar and vocabulary
  • To stop making repeated errors and mistakes  
  • To summarise arguments, highlighting significant points
  • To develop discussions with related comments & feedback
  • To overcome any gaps by paraphrasing or rephrasing
  • To socialise fluently and spontaneously 
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