The ‘Critical reading, critical writing’ course is an online class taught by Galley Beggar co-director and Guardian journalist Sam Jordison. Places will be limited to 20 people per class, and the course will run for a six-month period, with six classes to a course (running for two hours per session). For the May-November 2025 course, the selected titles are:

20 May 2025, Percival Everett, Erasure

17 June 2025, Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

22 July 2025, Graham Swift, Waterland

2 September 2025, Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

7 October 2025, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

11 November 2025, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

After booking, a welcome email will be sent to you, with further information.