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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I love bookshops. We have none locally, but recently I have a new source for reading material: a bespoke service from a bookshop at the other end of the UK. Each month I will be receiving at my door a surprise book, wrapped divinely, bookmark included. Such
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