For Book Clubs
Your book club already knows how to travel together. You just haven't done it yet.
The Idea
You've spent years walking through the streets of Kabul, wandering the moors of Yorkshire, sitting in the parlors of antebellum Charleston — all from someone's living room. You've debated characters, dissected endings, and argued about whether the author got the setting right.
But you've never gone to see for yourself.
Early & Away plans book club trips and reading retreats that take the conversations you're already having and put them somewhere worth having them. A boutique hotel in the English countryside. A historic inn on the Carolina coast. A villa overlooking the sea where the only thing on the agenda is the book in your hand and the people you want to talk about it with.
This isn't a group tour with strangers. It's your people, your books, your trip — with someone handling every detail so you can actually enjoy it.
Book Club Trips
Your club reads a novel set in Savannah. Or Barbados. Or the Yorkshire Dales. And someone says what someone always says: "We should go there."
Everyone agrees. It's a great idea. And then nothing happens — because nobody wants to be the one figuring out hotels for ten people with different budgets, coordinating flights, negotiating group rates, and building an itinerary that's more than just "wander around and hope for the best."
That's where I come in. I design custom book club itineraries built around the novels you've read together — not generic sightseeing tours with a literary name slapped on them.
A curated reading list built around your destination — so the books you read before the trip illuminate the place you're visiting.
Boutique hotels, country inns, and historic properties with real hospitality — places that feel like they belong in the books.
Hotel blocks, group dining, local guides, transportation, and all coordination. You focus on the reading and conversation. I handle the rest.
Whether your book club is 6 people or 20, the trip is designed around your group, not a pre-set package.
Reading Retreats
A reading retreat is something different from a book club trip. It's not built around a single novel or a specific destination from a story. It's built around the experience itself — a few days in a beautiful place with good books, good food, and good company, with every detail handled so all you have to do is show up.
I host a small number of curated reading retreats each year. I choose the property, set the theme, select the reading list, and design the entire experience from arrival to departure. These are intimate gatherings — typically 10 to 16 guests — at boutique hotels, historic estates, and distinctive properties.
Boutique hotels, country inns, and private estates with real hospitality — places where breakfast is handled, the coffee is made, and someone might bring you a drink by the pool while you're reading.
Each retreat has a theme — gothic literature, Southern fiction, Caribbean novels, historical mysteries. You'll receive a curated reading list in advance. Read one book or read them all.
A local historian. A private tour of a literary landmark. A chef's dinner featuring the cuisine of the place. The kind of things that make a weekend feel like it mattered.
Women who love books, who value conversation, who are looking for something more meaningful than a spa weekend. You'll leave with new reading recommendations and new friends.
Not Sure Which Is Right?
A book club trip is for your existing club — I plan a custom trip around the books you're already reading, and your group travels together on your own schedule.
A reading retreat is an experience I host — you sign up as an individual or bring a few friends, join other readers at a curated property, and enjoy a weekend designed around a theme I've chosen.
Some book clubs sign up for a retreat together as their annual trip. Some individuals come to a retreat and convince their book club to plan a trip afterward. There's no wrong door.
Trip announcements, curated reading lists, and the occasional dispatch — before anyone else.