BOOK CLUB
Connect and read with fellow alumni
Join in with thought provoking discussions as we discover the set texts together, moderated by a dedicated group leader who will encourage debate and suggest critical points for analysis.
The book we are currently reading, as chosen by book club members is Super Infinite by Katherine Rundell.
Goodreads says:
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell (St Catherine’s 2005 and Fellow of All Souls College), Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.
In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year old girl without her father's consent; struggled to feed a family of ten children; and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love.
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Are you an alumni author?
If you have written a book which has been published in the last 12 months or is about to be released, and it is available to purchase from Blackwell's bookshop, you can email the editor of QUAD news to consider it for review on our QUAD website. Our editorial selection rests on book appealing to the broadest alumni audience. Please email Richard Lofthouse with the following information:
- Your full name
- Oxford Number (or college/year of matriculation)
- Title and description of book
- Date of publication
- ISBN
- Link to book on Blackwell's website
