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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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Kate Atkinson wins the Costa Prize for Best Novel 2013

Kate Atkinson has won the best novel prize at the Costa Book Awards 2013 for the novel Life after Life, the second time she picks up the prize. 

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We loved Nature Tales for Winter Nights, a wintry- We loved Nature Tales for Winter Nights, a wintry-themed literary pick’n’mix ❄️ Containing almost fifty different pieces, ranging through time and genre, a lucky dip could bless the reader with a letter from Vincent van Gogh, a passage from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, or maybe an extract from the meteorological records of an Arctic explorer. Eclectic and evocative, it makes a lovely companion for these long, dark days of the year. See link in bio for our review. | | 📷 @elliottandthompson | #Bookstoker 

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Remembering David Bowie, singer, songwriter, visio Remembering David Bowie, singer, songwriter, visionary and voracious reader, on the 10th anniversary of his death. See link in bio for Bowie’s 100 favourite books | @vanityfair | #Bookstoker 

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