Books we’re loving

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From English villages and stately homes to European idylls, these are ideal

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The People's Friend Magazine

07 May, 2025

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Prima - UK

My books of 2025

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…

Woman's Own

Book club

by Ross Montgomery(£16.99, HB, Penguin) Cornwall, 1910. Convinced that Halley’s comet will bring about the apocalypse, the pompous Viscount of Tithe Hall seals his home off from the outside world – on

BBC Countryfile Magazine

Gifts christmas books

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

BBC History Magazine

2025 books of the year

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Country Life

The best books of the year

COUNTRY LIFE reviewers reveal the works that impressed and absorbed them in 2025

Yours

Yours book club

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