Creative reading (pa r t 2)

“As movers and the moved both know”, John Updike noted, “books are heavy freight ... They make us think twice about changing addresses.” Books: A manifesto, or, How to build a library begins with the

“Where are we to begin?”, Virginia Woolf asks in her essay “How to Read a Book”. “How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasures from what we read?

The comedian, author and Pointless presenter Alexander Armstrong shares his favourite reading

It started as a plan to help her customers, but soon stationery shop owner Rebecca McMillan, 34, from Cheltenham, realised she’d hit on something far bigger than she could ever have realised…

WITH PRIVATE LIBRARIES EXPERIENCING A RENAISSANCE, ALEXANDRA GOSS EXPLORES HOW YOU CAN FURNISH YOUR HOME WITH BOOKS

Novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave recommends reads for when you require an extra dash of courage