‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really work | Books

‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really work | Books

Books to help you … Find love Chosen by Philippa PerryAmir Levine’s Secure, to be published in April, is grounded in attachment theory, in which there are four main styles of bonding:... Read more »
What to read in 2026: recommendations from booksellers and publishers in Abuja, Nairobi and Brighton | Books

What to read in 2026: recommendations from booksellers and publishers in Abuja, Nairobi and Brighton | Books

From the richness of Nigeria’s modern literary scene, to the thriving publishing ecosystem of Kenya and the booming creativity coming from black British and African American writers, we asked an African publishing... Read more »
What to read in 2026: recommendations from booksellers and publishers in Abuja, Nairobi and Brighton | Books

Jonathan Coe: ‘I was a Tory until I read Tony Benn’ | Jonathan Coe

My earliest reading memoryNot my earliest reading memory, exactly, but my earliest memory of reading with avid enjoyment: The Three Investigators mysteries, a series of kids’ books about three juvenile detectives operating in... Read more »
What to read in 2026: recommendations from booksellers and publishers in Abuja, Nairobi and Brighton | Books

Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’ | Books

My earliest reading memory When I was about four or five, I think. I was living in Long Melford, Suffolk, with my foster parents, and my foster dad was trying to teach... Read more »
What to read in 2026: recommendations from booksellers and publishers in Abuja, Nairobi and Brighton | Books

‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read | Books

Andrew Michael Hurley The Summer People by Shirley Jackson I read this years ago and it’s a story that’s truly haunted me ever since. The titular “summer people” are the Allisons from... Read more »
Iris Murdoch’s poems on bisexuality to be published – read one exclusively here | Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch’s poems on bisexuality to be published – read one exclusively here | Iris Murdoch

A previously unpublished series of poems by the late novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch is to be printed, shedding new light on her life and relationships, and marking the first time the... Read more »
‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really work | Books

Natalie Haynes: ‘I’ll never read anything by a Brontë again’ | Books

My earliest reading memoryHarvey’s Hideout by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Lillian Hoban. Harvey is a muskrat with a grievance against his awful sibling. His sister Mildred feels just the same way. I... Read more »
Seamus Heaney’s unpublished poems to be released — read one exclusively here | Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney’s unpublished poems to be released — read one exclusively here | Seamus Heaney

A trove of unpublished poems by the late Irish poet Seamus Heaney is set to be printed alongside his collected and uncollected poems, published together for the first time. The Poems of... Read more »
Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read | Books

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read | Books

The banning of books, it would be easy to think, is a relic of less enlightened ages. The Catholic church, in a last spasm of rectitude, added Jean-Paul Sartre, Alberto Moravia and Simone... Read more »
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