Launch your own platinum book club

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from a lifetime of reading, it’s this: books are better when shared. The conversation after a brilliant novel – the ‘Did you gasp at that twist?’ or the ‘I highlighte

Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight

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

Jane Fallon, the award-winning TV producer turned bestselling novelist shares the books she can’t put down

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

From a new voice in literary fiction, this is a brilliantly chaotic, darkly funny story that explores family dysfunction at its most extreme. The Flynns’ messy lives – an open marriage, three very reb