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‘I was reading like I did when I was a kid – for comfort and pleasure’

The village shop that sold pick ‘n’ mix sweets. A cowpat-strewn country lane with occasional glimpses of Glastonbury Tor. Leaping the wooden stile into Butterfly Wood. It’s over 30 years since I last

One of my favourite books of the past few years is Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It’s had a big impact on my own writing – early next year I have a book coming out that’s written as

HOW quickly Sylvia’s life had changed! At New Year, she’d wished that the next 12 months would mean better health for her grandmother, a new washing machine for her mother and, if at all possible, a p

GH ’s books director Joanne Finney shares her pick of this month’s new hardback releases

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is my earliest memory of fiction transporting me to another world, I was absolutely hooked. The way C.S. Lewis was able to take this piece of furniture and transfo