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We would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this monthAs part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the […]

2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, second in the Jack
Logan series. DCI Logan has transferred to Inverness because Glasgow
has too many bad memories for […]

Two uncannily similar men switch places in an existential farce that playfully explores the precarity of working lifeIn Isabel Waidner’s previous novel, 2023’s

A Yale lecturer’s radical proposal to replace elected leaders with ordinary people, chosen by lotteryNo Donald Trump, Nigel Farage or Liz Truss; no Zack Polanski, J […]

The Haunted Wood by Sam Leith is a survey of childhood reading from Aesop to J. K. Rowling. With a focus on British children’s literature, Leith examines how i […]

It’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allowsMy psychological res […]

This week I read three books.I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to Gone with the Wind on audio book, however, I did get three book reviews written!A […]

TIL protons have mass. I didn’t even know they were catholic.

The Barbecue at No 9 by Jennie Godfrey; A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage by MK Oliver; A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford; Holy Boy by Lee Heejoo; A S […]

The Bulgarian Booker winner on the letter he wrote to JD Salinger, the allure of Homer’s Odyssey and the magic of Thomas MannMy earliest reading memory
I was t […]

The London Book Fair (LBF) has today revealed the shortlist for the Trailblazers Awards 2026, celebrating industry professionals in their first ten years of their […]

2021 mystery, second in its series. Pentecost and Parker return to the
circus where Parker grew up, and the Tattooed Woman has just been
fatally stabbed. Something […]

23. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Walter M. Miller Jr. 1959. 335 pages. [Source: Bought] [4 stars, science fiction, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, classic]

First […]

myakmyak:I finished reading “Chocolat” today, and decided to draw the main character in honor of it.

ratbeef95:

myjetpack:ALTMy cartoon for this week’s New Scientist.Tom Gauld

22. A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out. Nicholas Day. 2025. 304 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars, nonfiction, […]

21. Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers. Christy Mandin. 2025. 40 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars, nonfiction picture book, history, […]

The critically-acclaimed author will be in the UK promoting her latest books, Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya. Friday 13 March – Parade’s End Books, […]

Acclaimed novelist and journalist Fatima Bhutto will be in the UK promoting her latest memoir, The Hour of the Wolf. Monday 23 February – Daunt Books Summertown, […]

Enter the CrimeFiles x Bay Tales prize draw to be in with a chance of winning a stack of new and upcoming books from the Crime/Thriller reading community across […]

Old books are the heart of my childhood. While I was growing up, we had more books in the house than we had furniture. The walls were shelved in hardbacked books; […]