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Welcome packs

• Join the 2026 War and Peace read-along (latecomers always welcome!)

• Join Wolf Crawl: a slow read of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy

• Join the new slow reads in 2026 (including Midnight’s Children)

2026 slow reads:

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (all year)

• Wolf Crawl: The Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel (all year)

• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Jan–Mar)

• Regeneration by Pat Barker (Apr–May)

• The Inheritors by William Golding (June)

• Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (July)

• The Children’s Book by AS Byatt (Sept–Dec)

2025 slow reads:

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (all year)

• The Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel (all year)

• The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell (starts 13 Jan)

• A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel (starts 5 May)

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (starts 29 Sept)

• The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald (starts 3 Nov)