The past 12 months have seen some fabulous releases. Prima ’s books editor Nina Pottell looks back at her favourites and the ones you may have missed…

Winner of 2025’s Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, Raising Hare tells the captivating story of the author’s relationship with a newborn leveret she found abandoned near her home. Dalton brought the

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by Lily King (£18.99, HB, Canongate Books) The choices we make when we’re young can reverberate throughout our lives. As a young woman at university, our narrator is swept off into the intoxicating wo

by Julia McKay (£9.99, PB, Penguin) Ten years after her heart was broken, journalist Emory Oakes has sworn off love. But when her father’s financial scandal lands him in prison, she knows it is time t

The lives of Clara and Nancy are worlds apart – but is it time for them to finally live out their dream?