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  No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader - by Mark Hodkinson

  £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838850012 | ISBN 10: 1838850015

  This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens.  Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardr ... more

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  No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader - by Mark Hodkinson

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  No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

  by Mark Hodkinson

  
  

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  Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives - by Helen Taylor

  £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780198827696 | ISBN 10: 0198827695

  Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fic ... more

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  Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives - by Helen Taylor

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  Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives

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  The Literary Almanac: A Year of Seasonal Reading - by Francesca Beauman

  £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529412918 | ISBN 10: 1529412919

  Spanning the dreary, cold days of January to the first flushes of spring and then the blazing August heat, bibliophile Francesca Beauman offers up a wealth of book recommendations.   From The Count of Monte Cristo to Elena Ferrante’s Neapol ... more

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  The Literary Almanac: A Year of Seasonal Reading - by Francesca Beauman

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  by Francesca Beauman

  
  

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  Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading - by Lucy Mangan

  £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784709228 | ISBN 10: 1784709220

  When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.   She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows ... more

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  Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading - by Lucy Mangan

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  The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them - by Antonia Fraser (Editor)

  £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408859629 | ISBN 10: 1408859629

  In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Mar ... more

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  The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them - by Antonia Fraser (Editor)

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  How to be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much - by Samantha Ellis

  £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099575566 | ISBN 10: 0099575566

  Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre? Petrova or Posy? Scarlett or Melanie? Lace or Valley of the Dolls?   On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Ea ... more

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  An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading - by Heather Reyes

  £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992636401 | ISBN 10: 099263640x

  "I have so much enjoyed An Everywhere. It is a brilliant travel guide to the city of books: the city we hold within us, and the one we share with all its other citizens. I love Heather's passion for reading and the blend of erudition and intimacy tha ... more

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  An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading - by Heather Reyes

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  Read This Next: And Discover Your 500 New Favourite Books - by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark

  £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846143724 | ISBN 10: 1846143721

  In 2009 it was How NOT to Write a Novel ('A hilarious, wickedly observed and deeply useful guide' Observer). In 2010 it's Read This Next - Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark have written the perfect book for anyone who has ever struggled to choose w ... more

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