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Sharpening your pencil

10 of the best winter books

The Good Stuff

50+ thoughtful gifts

How to dodge festive overwhelm (and free up time for reading)

Gifts for bookish people

Three Good Things

Books to gift this Christmas 4: For children

Books to gift this Christmas 3: Coffee table tomes and cookbooks

Books to gift this Christmas 2: Memoir and biography

Books to gift this Christmas: Fiction

Season's Readings

Sunday Reading: three new books

Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Discoveries: October

But what if you don't actually like it?

Discoveries: September

Autumn Reads

Lessons in Renovation

Off the shelf #2: Demon Copperhead

September Resolutions

Three Good Things

The Discoveries of July

They know what to read this summer

What to read this summer

Back in time

The Discoveries of June

A nostalgic jaunt down a book-lined memory lane

Off the shelf #1

The books of summer

The Discoveries of May

(Nearly) Everything I read in May

Books for 12+ and teens - courtesy of three fine young bookworms

Hannah Shuckburgh's top ten books for younger children

Corsica Calling

The Discoveries of April

"How do you read so much?"

On reading more than one book at a time

Loved that? Read this.

The Discoveries of March

A spot of soul-soothing

20 Things I Know

A Prescription for...the classics and "something epic"

For IWD: a realisation and an abundance of strong women

The Discoveries of February

My Life in Books and Frocks

"Just because something is deemed ‘escapist’ doesn’t mean it cannot deal with real-life issues too."

Review: The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore

The Discoveries of January

‘Sexist’ Jane Austen novel too upsetting for students’

Books that remind you of other books

A prescription for...a family saga

Review: We All Want Impossible Things

Happy Families

A prescription for...the January blues