PhD Book Club Our next meet, in Welcome Week, will be to discuss Donna Tartt's brilliant and terrifying 1992 novel The Secret History, which arguably spawned the fiction genre of 'dark academia'. We'll meet upstairs in the Chaplaincy on Friday 18th September, 3.30-4.45pm, to discuss the temptations of charismatic ideas, and what happens when they come to life...This Welcome Week session will also be a chance to welcome new PhD students to the group - and to come along if you've been meaning to for a long while, but not quite found the juncture. We have some copies of the book in the PhD Book Club Library to borrow if you would like; email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk if you'd like to come in to borrow one.To register for PhD Book Club, please email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk.Read the PhD Book Club blog posts here. Sep 18 2026 15.30 - 16.45 PhD Book Club PhD Book Club meets 3:30-4:45pm on Fridays every six weeks, with Dr Kitty Wheater. Open to all PhD students, we’ll read books that cast light on the trials, tribulations, and mundanities of PhD life, offering perspective and inspiration for the time ahead. Past books have included Educated, by Tara Westover, Night Waking, by Sarah Moss, and On Beauty, by Zadie Smith. To register for PhD Book Club, please email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk. Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Place EH8 9AL Team Area This article was published on Thursday 12 September 2024
PhD Book Club Our next meet, in Welcome Week, will be to discuss Donna Tartt's brilliant and terrifying 1992 novel The Secret History, which arguably spawned the fiction genre of 'dark academia'. We'll meet upstairs in the Chaplaincy on Friday 18th September, 3.30-4.45pm, to discuss the temptations of charismatic ideas, and what happens when they come to life...This Welcome Week session will also be a chance to welcome new PhD students to the group - and to come along if you've been meaning to for a long while, but not quite found the juncture. We have some copies of the book in the PhD Book Club Library to borrow if you would like; email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk if you'd like to come in to borrow one.To register for PhD Book Club, please email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk.Read the PhD Book Club blog posts here. Sep 18 2026 15.30 - 16.45 PhD Book Club PhD Book Club meets 3:30-4:45pm on Fridays every six weeks, with Dr Kitty Wheater. Open to all PhD students, we’ll read books that cast light on the trials, tribulations, and mundanities of PhD life, offering perspective and inspiration for the time ahead. Past books have included Educated, by Tara Westover, Night Waking, by Sarah Moss, and On Beauty, by Zadie Smith. To register for PhD Book Club, please email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk. Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Place EH8 9AL Team Area This article was published on Thursday 12 September 2024
Sep 18 2026 15.30 - 16.45 PhD Book Club PhD Book Club meets 3:30-4:45pm on Fridays every six weeks, with Dr Kitty Wheater. Open to all PhD students, we’ll read books that cast light on the trials, tribulations, and mundanities of PhD life, offering perspective and inspiration for the time ahead. Past books have included Educated, by Tara Westover, Night Waking, by Sarah Moss, and On Beauty, by Zadie Smith. To register for PhD Book Club, please email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk.
