Manchester Lit&Phil Literary Book Club

Overview

Adapted into a sumptuous, star-studded movie that won seven Academy awards, the memoir Out of Africa recalls Danish socialite Karen Blixen’s time as a coffee farmer in Kenya in the early part of the last century.

The Times described it as ‘Compelling. . . a story of passion. . . and a movingly poetic tribute to a lost land’. The New York Times begged to differ, saying ‘the country’s history seems to begin with the arrival of Europeans like Karen Blixen . . . her sojourn in Africa, is depicted through a haze of romantic sentimentality that obscures its most obvious and obnoxious features.’

Join us for what is likely to be a lively discussion about Out of Africa, and help us to kick off the first of our non-fiction books on our reading list.

The Lit & Phil Literary Book Club is free and exclusively for members, operating on a first come first serve basis, up to a maximum of 15 people.

Save the date and start reading.

April 28 book club: Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell. (Classic fiction)

May 26 book club: A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh. (Contemporary fiction)

June 30 book club: The Places in Between, Rory Stewart (Non-fiction)