Choosing a book to read is much more difficult than choosing clothes to wear. The latter involves mere consideration of season and occasion, the former is more precarious – what will suit my mood and reading time available? I cannot be alone in realising my just-before-bed-but-not-every-night reading
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It’s been tough keeping fit during the last Covid-restricted year. How refreshing to know that reading- especially fiction – is increasingly being proven as good for your health. I reckon we’ve always thought that the benefits of reading last a lifetime. Beginning with the parental bond of
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I would read more nonfiction if it were as interesting and diverting as Square Haunting. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, it follows the lives of five women who were pioneers in their fields from the turn of the Twentieth century till WW2 and who set themselves
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