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Which childhood book sparked your love of reading? The Shoe Shop Bears by Margaret J Baker, now sadly out of print. It was the first book I bought with my own money. I was bored by picture books and w

Our books editor Zoe West’s favourite picks for the month

Dear Simon, Once again, the December 2025 issue had lots of memories to write about. Starting from the front, Gertcha! – I did love Chas and Dave, as did my husband. Of course, the family always watch

The TV historian, 56, reflects on the debt he owes to his determined mother, the history of guns, and why the next series of The Celebrity Traitors should be just as good as the first one…

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Times change and books change with them. The Horse’s Mouth, which the Everyman editor, Christoper Reid, describes in his introduction as “by far the best known volume” of Joyce Cary’s first trilogy of