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From dystopian Australian cli-fi to essential essays about Black Britain and Jack Reacher’s thrilling debut – authors, critics and booksellers all have a single recommendation

The subreddit r/ForgottenBookmarks is all about the quirky and sometimes strange things people use as bookmarks, forgetting them only for the book's next reader to find many years later. The post 50 Times Readers Forgot To Take Their Bookmarks Before Giving Away Their Books first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The median British adult has read or listened to three books in the past 12 months with reading habits also split along gender, class and political divides

Just 34.6% of children in the UK read for pleasure, according to a 2024 survey by the National Literacy Trust. This is the lowest number since the annual survey began in 2005 – down from 43.4% in the previous year.

A beach holiday is narrated by four different characters as they struggle to slough off their personal ghosts

Is there any horror to compare with World Book Day horror? I’m over it all myself because my daughter is at secondary school and they don’t get you to dress up at The Very Hungry Caterpillar there.

I’m not saying social media is fetishising the act of reading as a nostalgic, middle class pursuit regardless of the child’s actual interests, but what I am saying is there are an awful lot of Pippi Longstocking outfits on Instagram, writes Emma Kernahan

‘She reduced my manuscript to nonsense’ reads one letter as new archive sheds light on writer’s creative process

Hannah Ingram-Moore discusses storm around family’s handling of charity set up in Covid hero’s name

Caroline Darian has written a new book So That We May Remember about the Dominique Pelicot rape scandal