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The big bumper list of 2025 book groups

Welcome to War and Peace 2025

Mirror (Part 2/2) / Light

The Mirror and the Light

Book guide: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Welcome to Wolf Crawl

Mirror (Part 1/2)

The Eve of St Nicholas

The Siege of Krishnapur Reading Schedule

Magnificence (Part 2/2)

Sorrow and Joy

Magnificence (Part 1/2)

Henry Bourchier

Anna of Cleves

Tell Your Story

Join the 2025 'War and Peace' Slow Read

Twelfth Night

Katherine Howard

Edmund Bonner

We Are Stardust

Ascension Day (Part 2/2)

War and Peace 2025

2025 War and Peace Reading Schedule

Life After Death

Ascension Day (Part 1/2)

The Drowned and the Saved

Charles de Marillac

Edward Tudor

Corpus Christi (Part 2/2) / Inheritance

John Lambert

Constance Pole

No More Heroes

Corpus Christi (Part 1/2)

Geoffrey Pole

Philip Hoby

Negative Numbers

So now, read Wolf Hall with us!

Nonsuch

2025 Wolf Crawl Reading Schedule

Wolf Crawl: A slow read of Hilary Mantel's Cromwell Trilogy

Thomas Culpepper

Walter Cromer

Louis de Perreau, Sieur de Castillon

Happy Feet

The Image of the King (Part 2/2) / Broken on the Body

Fighting with Ghosts

Nikolay Raevsky

Karl Fiodorovitch Baggovout

Vasily Orlov-Denisov

Pyotr Konovnitsyn

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

The Image of the King (Part 1/2)

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza

John Husee

Death's Door

Platon Karataev

The Bleach Fields

Read 'A Place of Greater Safety' in 2025

Beyond Understanding

Vile Blood (2/2)

Phantoms and Reflections

Book Guide: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

Book Guide: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Book Guide: A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

Book Guide: The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell

Vile Blood (1/2)

Robert Aske

Margaret Vernon

The Unsettled Question

Come in, old ghost

Captain Ramballe

Makar Alexeevich

Gerasim

The Five Wounds

Elizabeth Zouche

How Bees Die

Aleksey Ermolov

Augmentation

Katherine Parr

Robert Barnes

The Value of Things

Endnotes August 2024 & Book Group Directory

Wreckage (II) (Part 2/2)

Evasive Manoeuvres

Wreckage (II) (Part 1/2)

Anne Seymour

Bess Darrell

This Terrible Affair

Salvage (Part 3/3)

The Dead Do Not Negotiate

John Shelton

Borodino

Salvage (Part 2/3)

Satan, Alias Cromwell

The Longest Night

Jean Rapp

Louis-François de Bausset

Our Crooked Age

Salvage (Part 1/3)

Mathew

Thomas Howard the Lesser

Margaret Douglas

Time and Patience

I Am the Damascene Cat

New book guide: Bring Up the Bodies

Wreckage (I)

Marya's World

Heart of Stone

Dunyasha

Dron

Master of Phantoms (Part 5/5) / Spoils

Life's Retreat

Monsieur Dessalles

Join a slow read

Welcome to footnotes and tangents

Master of Phantoms (Part 4/5)

Lady Kingston

Bring Up the Bodies

Book guides by Simon Haisell

Highs and lows

The Madding Crowd

Master of Phantoms (Part 3/5)

Growing Pains

Endnotes June 2024 & Book Group Directory

Substack Book Group Directory

Ilyin

William Kingston

Master of Phantoms (Part 2/5)

The Emperor's New Clothes

Master Skeleton

Master of Phantoms (Part 1/5)

Levin August von Bennigsen

Tsarevich Konstantin Pavlovich

Karl Ludwig von Pfuel

Barclay de Tolly

Alexander Balashov

Louis-Nicolas Davout

Richard Sampson

The Great Comet of 1812*

The Black Book (Part 3)

A dramatic interlude

Death is your prince

The Black Book (Part 2)

Henry Pole

Henry Howard

Natasha's battlefield

The Black Book (Part 1)

If life could write

Angels

María de Salinas

Robert Packington

Anthony

William Paulet

The enchanted forest

Pelageya Danilovna Melyukova

Madame Schoss

Dimmler

A murder of crows

Crows (Part 2)

Mitka

Anisya Fyodorovna

Ilagin

Elizabeth Somerset

Grace Bedingfield

Edmund Bedingfield

John ap Rice

Never Never Land

Nastasya Ivanovna

Semyon Chekmar

Uncle

Danilo

Crows (Part 1)

William FitzWilliam

Lovers of light

I could have danced all night. And I did.

A bird's eye view

Falcons

Margery Seymour

John Seymour

The colour of the soul

His killing vein

Death on the stair

The Map of Christendom (Part 2) / To Wolf Hall

The Complete Wolf Hall, Audio Alice, and a special offer

Wolf Hall

A semblance of life

We, the dead

The Map of Christendom (Part 1)

Martin

Mikhail Speransky

A hundred days of War and Peace

Supremacy

Anne Shelton

Margaret Bryan

Lucifer stinks

Two men in a boat

Elizabeth Tudor

Devil's Spit / A Painter’s Eye

Margaret Pole

Elizabeth Seymour

William Butts

The world below

Regenerate me

Bagration's big bash and other parties

Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky

Anna Regina (Part 2)

Georges de Selve

Mary Howard

John Stokesley

Honor Grenville

Arthur Plantagenet

The house of love and ruin

Osip Alexeevich Bazdeev

Anna Regina (Part 1)

Jean de Dinteville

Helen Barre

Reginald Pole

Nicholas Carew

John Frith

The hazards of love

Bed of phantoms

'Alas, What Shall I Do For Love?' (Part 2) / Early Mass

John Parnell

William Stafford

Christophe

John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners

Thomas Seymour

Edward Seymour

Rostovaganza!

Count Rastopchin

The memory burns the body

'Alas, What Shall I Do For Love?' (Part 1)

Gertrude Courtenay

Henry Courtenay

Elizabeth Barton

Hans Holbein

Dick Purser

John Petyt

Rowland Lee

Richard Riche

Thomas Audley

Infinite sky

Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden

Friedrich Karl Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe

Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein

Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron

Maximilian von Wimpffen

Aleksey Arakcheev

Mikhail Miloradovich

Arrange Your Face (Part 2)

Evil tooth

Francis Bryan

Henry Wyatt

Nikolaus Kratzer

Hugh Latimer

Young blood

Vampiric Vasili

Prince Adam Czartoryski

Prince Dolgorukov

The Dead Complain of Their Burial / Arrange Your Face (Part 1)

The dead come back

Jane Boleyn

Jenneke

Daydreams and nightmares

Alpatych

Entirely Beloved Cromwell (Part 2)

The cardinal is alive

Francis Weston

William Brereton

George Boleyn

Thomas Cranmer

Waiting for history to happen

Entirely Beloved Cromwell (Part 1)

The gallery of his mind's eye

Thomas Avery

Jane Seymour

Mary Shelton

Mary Tudor

Elizabeth Stafford

Thurston

Stephen Vaughan

John More

Anne Cresacre

Margaret Roper

Henry Pattinson

William Roper

Thomas Wriothesley

Alice More

A beautiful world made ugly by war

Captain Tushin

Ferdinand von Wintzingerode

Franz von Weyrother

Make or Mar / Three-Card Trick

The ghosts are gathering

Eustache Chapuys

Antonio Bonvisi

Thomas Wyatt

Mark Smeaton

Fear and love at Bald Hills

Flying dinner plates, Tikhon!

Bilibin

Joachim Murat

Dmitry Dokhturov

Johann Heinrich von Schmitt

Édouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso

An Occult History of Britain (Part 2)

Your cellar, your ghost

Prince Pyotr Bagration

John Fisher

Martin Luther

Lorenzo Campeggio

Cardinal Morton

Uncle John

John Williamson

John Wellyfed

François I

Alice Wellyfed

Jo Williamson

Johane Williamson

A heart needs a home

A dinner and dance with the terrible dragon

Lavrushka

Lieutenant Telyanin

Vasily "Vas'ka" Denisov

Prince Kozlovsky

Francis I

Prince Nesvitsky

Zherkov

Prokhor Ignatych Timokhin

An Occult History of Britain (Part 1)

The flash of her white cap

Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich

Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este

Niccolò Machiavelli

Richard III

Henry VI

Edward IV

Thomas Bilney

Richard Williams

Cesare Borgia

Mary Tudor

Elizabeth of York

Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland

Henry FitzRoy

Elizabeth Boleyn

Mary Boleyn

George Talbot

Mary Talbot

Henry Percy

Thomas Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

Life at both ends

Tea with the rustling Rostovs

Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy

Tikhon

Paul I of Russia

Mikhail Ivanovich

Mademoiselle Bourienne

At Austin Friars / Visitation

The dead before they are dead

Book group news

Cuthbert Tunstall

William Warham

Henry Norris

Sexton (Patch)

George Cavendish

William Gascoigne

Mercy Wykys

Henry Wykys

Humphrey Monmouth

The Haunting of Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall Further Resources

William Tyndale

Charles Brandon

Bet Wellyfed

Grace Cromwell

Anne Cromwell

Pyotr Nikolaevich Shinshin

Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova

Katerina Semyonovna Mamontov (Catiche)

All Tolstoy's Parties

War and Peace Weekly Posts

An invitation to a soirée

A tale of two bears

Alphonse Karlovich Berg

Taras

Across the Narrow Sea / Paternity

Mantel's Magic