3 October 2026 · The Playground team

Staff pick: The Remains of the Day

A short, quiet novel about what a person chooses not to say.

A butler takes a few days off and drives across England. That is the plot, and it is also not the plot. Everything that matters happens in what he leaves out.

It is short enough to read in a weekend, and it was one of the club’s most talked-about evenings.