What we're reading
What we're reading over summer
Our staff share the books they’re planning to read over summer.
‘As I’ll be spending Christmas overseas (and leading on from reading Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time Of Gifts in anticipation) I will be packing Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between The Woods And The Water, among other things, to accompany me. The second volume documenting his incredible journey on foot from Amsterdam to Constantinople, we pick up in Budapest, where we left the young Fermor wondering at what awaited him…
What we're reading: Camille Perri, Patrick Leigh Fermor & Katherine Heiny
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bronte Coates is reading Camille Perri & Katherine Heiny
It is that time of the year where everyone shares their end-of-year wrap-ups and the internet is flooded with recommendations for approximately one billion books that you missed out on reading this year. After seeing it crop up a few times, I impulsively picked up a…
What we're reading: Karen Foxlee, Allie Brosh & Oyinkan Braithwaite
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bronte Coates is reading My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
My Sister, the Serial Killer may just be the perfect summer read. This is a pulpy, pacy thriller with a razor-sharp sense of humour. Set in Lagos, Nigeria, the story follows methodical Korede and her beautiful younger sister Ayoola who has the unfortunate…
What we're reading: Tana French, Ben Aaronovitch & Jan Morris
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Marie Matteson is reading Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
At the moment I am wholly enthralled in Jan Morris’s evocation of Trieste over the centuries, fading in and out of the spotlight as Europe ebbs and flows. When you need to be in Trieste – or simply, anywhere but here –…
What we're reading: Curtis Sittenfeld, Karl Ove Knausgaard & Lisa Hanawalt
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Goodman is reading Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard (translated by Ingvild Burkey)
I took another break from the new Murakami to read Karl Ove Knausgaard’s contribution to the Windham-Campbell Why I Write series, Inadvertent. With characteristic suspicion and microscopic analysis he addresses his ‘reasons’ for writing one by one, asking how legitimate it…
What we're reading: Jock Serong, John Boyne & Dorothy Baker
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bronte Coates is reading two American classics
I’ve recently read my way through two American classics that I’ve had on my TBR list for a while: Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker (1962) and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (1976). The first is a smart and blackly funny novel about a young…
What we're reading: Jasmine Guillory, Sarah Moss & Ottessa Moshfegh
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Mike Shuttleworth is reading Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration by Leonard S. Marcus
Generations of adults – children once – grew up reading the books of Helen Oxenbury: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Farmer Duck, There’s Going to Be a Baby, and…
What we're reading: Brandy Colbert, Karen Foxlee & Behrouz Boochani
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bronte Coates is reading Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
I read this YA novel after it was recommended to me by a coworker and (as per the rule of recommendations from my colleagues) I really loved it. Suzette was unwillingly sent away to boarding school when her much-loved older brother, Lionel, was diagnosed with…
What we're reading: Liane Moriarty, Carey Pietsch & Atelier Sento
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Ellen Cregan is reading Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter by Atelier Sento (translated by Marie Velde)
This is a delightful graphic novel that follows a two tourists as they search for yôkai – the supernatural beings from Japanese folklore. Two adventurers, Cecile and Olivier, are visiting Niigata, a seaside city in Japan. Cecile…
What we're reading: Haruki Murakami, Eleanor Davis & Luke Pearson
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Lian Hingee is watching The Haunting of Hill House and Hilda
I’ve just started watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix, which is based on Shirley Jackson’s book of the same name. Where Jackson’s book is the story of four people who are invited by a paranormal investigator to spend the summer living…
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