Every day, BookTok influencers are recommending new reads, often grouped by a theme or trope: books to make you cry; enemies-to-lovers stories; queer coming-of-age. But what if they could pick one book – just one – that changed their life, and made them into the reader they are now? We pressed a handful of the UK’s most […]

It’s rare to stumble across a book that hasn’t been recommended by somebody – whether that’s a friendly bookseller, a well-read friend or a trusted source on social media. But what happens when you’re left bereft, having finished a recommended book you totally adored – and don’t know what to read next?  Fortunately, that’s where […]

Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao taught me more about the early 20th-century Dominican dictatorship than any history lesson ever could. It’s something I’ve always loved about fiction: its ability to transport you not just anywhere in the world, but so absolutely to a certain point in time. To learn about the […]