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Books to make you laugh and cry this summer

The very best must-reads for late summer holidays.

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The books everyone is talking about

The Story of Art without MenKaty Hessel

The Light We CarryMichelle Obama

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowGabrielle Zevin

Book LoversEmily Henry

The RetreatSarah Pearse

The Family RemainsLisa Jewell

Bullet TrainKotaro Isaka

The Lincoln HighwayAmor Towles

Ethel & ErnestRaymond Briggs

Lessons in ChemistryBonnie Garmus

How to Live When You Could Be DeadDeborah James

The Man Who Died TwiceRichard Osman

Exciting must-reads for 2022

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: The Animated StoryCharlie Mackesy

Just Sayin'Malorie Blackman

Shrines of GaietyKate Atkinson

Terry Pratchett: A Life With FootnotesRob Wilkins

Carrie Soto Is BackTaylor Jenkins Reid

The Bullet That MissedRichard Osman

BookTok, and beyond

Features
The generation revolutionising publishing
These days, nearly every bookstore has one: a table of novels, their authors spanning gender, sexuality, race, and ability, with a small placard featuring some variation on “BookTok recommends”; “BookTok faves”; or “As seen on BookTok”. The commercial power of BookTok – the subcommunity of social media platform TikTok where readers recommend, review and joke […]
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I’m an adult who reads Young Adult fiction – here’s why you should, too
There's so much more to YA than vampires and love triangles – not that there's anything wrong with those. Put aside your snobbery and leap in, says Amy Jones.
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BookTokkers: the single book that changed my life most
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 […]

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A Fatal CrossingTom Hindle

Amy and LanSadie Jones

LilyRose Tremain

Other Names for LoveTaymour Soomro

Notes from a Small Kitchen IslandDebora Robertson

Square OneNell Frizzell

Hawk MountainConner Habib

Other People's HusbandsElizabeth Noble

I Don't Want to Talk About HomeSuad Aldarra

Beautiful CountryQian Julie Wang

How to be Well ReadJohn Sutherland

That Moment WhenMo Gilligan

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Clothbound Classics

If you not only love having a great classic to read but also cherish the feel of a wonderful object, then these are the books for you. Bound in cloth and each individually designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Choose 3 for £33

Collectable Classics

The Amazing Spider-ManStan Lee, Steve Ditko

Tales from ShakespeareCharles Lamb, Mary Lamb

The Complete Novels of Jane AustenJane Austen

The OutsiderAlbert Camus

Michael KohlhaasHeinrich Von Kleist

The Black MothGeorgette Heyer

Bestselling audiobooks

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The HorseCharlie Mackesy

Small GodsTerry Pratchett

The Man Who Died TwiceRichard Osman

A Slow Fire BurningPaula Hawkins

The Transgender IssueShon Faye

WillWill Smith, Mark Manson

Alison Hammond

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The multi-award-winning Penguin Podcast is a fortnightly interview series in which authors explore their literary lives through some of the objects that have inspired their work.

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Exciting new children's books

The Beastly BunchLeisa Stewart-Sharpe, Pippa Curnick

That's Not My Name!Anoosha Syed

Fin and the Memory CurseHelenka Stachera

A Ladybird Book: British Kings and QueensLadybird, Olivia Waller

Peter Rabbit: Hide and Seek!Rachel Bright, Nicola Kinnear

The Double Trouble SocietyCarrie Hope Fletcher

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