The Readings blog

Featuring My Name is Jemima by Olivia Muscat, A Farm by the Sea by Jillian Packer, Rise of the Witch by Kitty Black and more!

Featuring Our New Gods by Thomas Vowles, Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li, New Skin by Miranda Nation and more.

Featuring Yellow Notebook by Helen Garner, Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent, Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami and more.

Featuring The prime minister's potato and other essays by Anne-Marie Condé, Terraglossia by Dr Debra Dank, Hunger Like a Thirst by Besha Rodell and more!

Discover the books that have won the 2025 Book of the Year Awards from BookPoeple!

Discover our top recommendations for great craft books to help you mark Worldwide Knit in Public Day on Saturday 14 June.

Featuring Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Nightingale by Laura Elvery and This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith.

Discover the 2025 winners of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction!

Featuring Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin, King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby, With a Vengeance by Riley Sager and more.

Featuring The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa, Sleeping Children by Anthony Passeron, Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas, and more!

Featuring The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan, Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent, James by Percival Everett and more!

Featuring Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend, The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel, Fearless by Lauren Roberts and more!