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Two blissful weeks in the UK, a bookish Paris escape, and five spots left on my Hay Reading Retreat.
Plus: a classic that really is as good as everyone says...
Dec 18, 2025
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12 quick reads you can finish in a day
Perfect for catching up on that Goodreads challenge you swore you’d stay on top of.
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Nine heady novels set in Paris
A city of secrets, seduction and reckless excess...
Jul 3, 2025
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50 books I love (part I)
Featuring my all-time favourite book, and 49 others I’ve loved along the way—plus my top pick of the year so far...
Jan 30, 2025
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Lucy Pearson
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In the beginning
On what it's like to get dumped by a man you moved across the world for
Nov 22, 2024
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5 books to read when life feels shit
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In the beginning
Nov 22, 2024
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Lucy Pearson
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Katie Clapham's Desert Island Books
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The classics I can't stand
Apr 17, 2025
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Farrah Storr's Desert Island Books
Featuring the book that makes her cry every time, to the classic that's a cliché for a reason...
Dec 21, 2025
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Clover Stroud's Desert Island Books
Featuring a classic about family, ambition, sex, and violence and a deeply melancholic depiction of the end of adolescence...
Dec 14, 2025
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Clover Stroud
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Olivia Muenter's Desert Island Books
Featuring a modern-day classic and the book that’s guaranteed to make her cry…
Dec 7, 2025
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Lucy Pearson
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Olivia Muenter
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Hanako Footman's Desert island Books
Featuring the book that reminds her of her father, and the one she devoured on a beach in Hydra…
Nov 30, 2025
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Lucy Pearson
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Hanako Footman
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How I managed to read 98 books last year
Tried-and-tested hacks for making more time to read...
Jan 9, 2025
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My January reading so far
Three books I loved, and one I really wanted to...
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A look back on a wild + wonderful year
A solo stay in India, a creative retreat in Tuscany, a life-changing sojourn to Hay, several escapades to Paris and a hot girl summer in Bloomsbury…
Jan 11
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I've read seventy books this year
Here are seven of my favourites...
Dec 28, 2025
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Farrah Storr's Desert Island Books
Featuring the book that makes her cry every time, to the classic that's a cliché for a reason...
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