Meet up with fellow book lovers who work in publishing to discuss what brought most of us here: books! Informal, friendly and fun, every member gets to nominate a book for discussion to cover a wide range of topics, genres and styles. Meet new friends and contacts – and have a darn good read.

Choice is taken in turn by each member of the Book Club, who will also lead the discussion at the next meeting. This ensures that a wide range of tastes is catered for, and hopefully we all end up reading and enjoying something we wouldn’t normally consider.

NEXT EVENT

The Great Gatsby by by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is the quintessential tale of obsessive love and jealousy.

n 1922, F Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write “something new–something extraordinary and beautiful and simple, intricately patterned”. That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned and, above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald’s finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author’s generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald’s–and his country’s–most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed and the promise of new beginnings. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning–” Gatsby’s rise to glory and eventual fall from grace be comes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.

Everyone is welcome to the next SYP Book Club – 6 June from 6 pm (in All Bar One).

Need more information? Contact Emily Downing, our Book Club Co-ordinator, on oxfordbookgroup@thesyp.org.uk