Three brands. One operator.
I plan literary travel as an advisor, host small-cohort escapes through The Endpaper Society, and run a Gen X book club at The Latchkey Readers. Each does a different job. People ask, so — here's the map.
The Endpaper Society
The Endpaper Society is where the small-group hosted trips live now — eight women, one trip, a five-month reading arc before departure. By the time you land in the Burren or on the deck of the QM2, you already know your fellow travelers and you've all read the same five books.
If "trip with strangers who won't be strangers by the time you land" is your kind of good idea, that's where to go. The first four cohorts are open: Yorkshire, the Caribbean by tall ship, the Queen Mary 2 Literary Festival, and a long-light week in the West of Ireland.
The Latchkey Readers
The Latchkey Readers is a Substack and an online book club for readers in their forties and fifties — the latchkey-kid generation. One book a month, a monthly call, and a newsletter that talks to you like a reader, not a customer. Free. No homework police.
The book club feeds The Endpaper Society's hosted cohorts; the cohorts are the people who read the same things and want to go somewhere. If you want the community before (or instead of) the trip, that's the door.
Which door is yours
These doors aren't exclusive. Readers cross between them all the time — a TLR subscriber joins a Society cohort, a Society alumna books a private Early & Away trip the next year. Same person on the other side of all three.
Early & Away is the advisory practice — private trips, book club travel, and itineraries for serious readers and writers. If that's what you're looking for, let's plan something.