It was a privilege to have the opportunity to exchange with author Hervé Le Tellier on his best-selling novel “The Anomaly” yesterday. This book had a real impact on me and many people around me, in its thought-provoking reflection on the place of technology in an increasingly digital world, and the human condition within it. ...

I love so much about the amazing writer JRR Tolkien and how the horrifying experiences of the war created such an extraordinary storyteller, and how his rage against the Nazi Machine honed his passion for nature, trees and rewilding. Tolkien’s extraordinary love of nature and the earth is manifest throughout his books as trees ...

Ikigai, the Japanese secret to a long and happy life, is an inspiring book that both my husband and I both read and enjoyed as we are learning to love living life! Based entirely on the Japanese concept of a reason for being - it’s beautifully illustrated and amazing to read, and re-read. It’...

Having been told recently there is no seat for me at the local book club table (it is North Oxford so probably I didn’t meet the IQ bar or good old fashioned conscious bias at work!) I am so excited to be building a new table, involving those who love reading books and talking ...