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We’re here to help you find that book that you can’t put down, the book you’ll push on all your friends, the book that’ll change your life.

We read literary fiction, non-fiction, classics and children’s books, all genres and styles embraced in our aim to share the love. You’ll also find fabulous Bookstagrams and literary news.

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Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda La Grange

Endearing memoir that falls short of full potential

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Blood River – A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher

Gripping tale about a journalist's trip down the Congo river

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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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This year’s Booker Prize is shaping up to be one o This year’s Booker Prize is shaping up to be one of the best contested in years and singing to us from the 2026 longlist is The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis. This atmospheric tale of perception and awakening is told by Flora, a Mexican woman with a rich interior life, leading a somewhat sedate life in London. Whilst visiting her mother in Mexico City, Flora is badly bitten by the family dog and hospitalised. Here she meets Wilhelmina, elderly toy collector and magic lantern performer. Their strange affinity will come to challenge Flora’s notions of life, longing and loss. See link in bio for our review. | 🎥 @thebookerprizes @chattobooks | #Bookstoker #bookerlonglist #bookerprize2026 #bookrecs #bookswelove #chloearidjis #theshadowoftheobject #whattoreadnext
‘France has the only two things towards which we d ‘France has the only two things towards which we drift as we grow older- intelligence and manners’ - F. Scott Fitzgerald. 🇫🇷 Le Bouquineur, Cordes-sur-Ciel | Beautiful photo @zharys | #Bookstoker #beautifulbookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #frenchbookshop #frenchvibes #fscottfitzgeraldquotes #lebouquineur
It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez has been It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez has been one of this summer’s many highlights. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, you have something to look forward to. Nunez’s National Book Award-winning novel The Friend still lingers in my mind. It Will Come Back to You is a collection of short stories written throughout her 30-year career. Her writing is deceptively simple, perceptive and very funny, with themes ranging from puberty to dementia, via mother-daughter relationships, an airport nightmare and a couple of dark sexual obsessions, one of which ends in murder. As The New York Times writes, these are ‘stories that remind us why Sigrid Nunez is one of our best writers’. True indeed. See link in bio for our review. | 📷 @viragopress | #Bookstoker #bookclubreads #bookswelove #readthisbook #sigridnunez #viragopress #whattoreadnext
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