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Turn Up for the Books
After lockdown lifted, our writer spent three years in search of the perfect book club, only to find that no two readers are ever on the same page.
30 June 2025
The Beadlean Library
Legendary presenter Jeremy Beadle had a big secret hiding in his Oxfordshire mansion.
3 June 2025
Snooker Loopy
Two writers face off in a grudge match of snooker: the fanciful, ludicrous game of punished error and forced embarrassment. Róisín Lanigan cues off first...
9 December 2024
All Possible Plots II
You could read a book, but why bother? Here, we list all the possible plots every author could come up with instead.
20 August 2024
Houellebecq Honeypot
Jini van Rooijen is an OnlyFans model and a member of the experimental Dutch art collective KIRAC. She also honeypotted Michel Houellebecq, the world's horniest author.
25 June 2024
If You Can Make It There…
Our author moved from London to New York. She writes about the culture shocks of this rarely trodden path.
16 May 2024
Something to Tell You
On Boxing Day 2022, the writer Hanif Kureishi had a fall that left him paralysed from the neck down. His son reflects on a year caring for his once-carer.
29 April 2024
Hacks, Stacks & Perfect Sniffing
Lifting the veil on the London Library, our capital's most clandestine reading house.
14 March 2024