Books Archive • Page 2 of 5 • Give a Book

Each month, we share a book recommended by a special guest for Give a Book. Have a browse below, and join our mailing list to read them each month.

This month, actor and writer Simon Callow has chosen Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher… Read More

This month, the award-winning author and literary critic David Lodge has chosen for his Book… Read More

This month, Sir Ian McKellen has chosen Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver for his… Read More

Nick Sharratt, award-winning illustrator and author of children’s books, writes of his Book of the Month:… Read More

This month, travel writer and academic Robert Macfarlane has chosen The Dark is Rising by… Read More

This month, Cressida Cowell, author of the brilliant How to Train Your Dragon series and Emily… Read More

This month our Book of the Month is chosen by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons. He… Read More

This month the editor, novelist and memoirist Diana Athill has kindly chosen a book for… Read More

This month, the legendary singer-songwriter, actress, author and literacy campaigner Dolly Parton has chosen The… Read More

This month we are lucky to have received recommendations from two special guests. Actor, comedian,… Read More

This month, Martina Cole has chosen a book that’s special to her: “The book that… Read More

This month, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, the enormously prolific children’s writer and former Children’s Laureate, describes her… Read More

This month, award-winning poet Christopher Reid has chosen Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and… Read More

Children’s author John Dougherty is Patron of Reading at West Earlham Junior School and chair of… Read More

This month we remember the great crime writer Ruth Rendell, who died on 2 May. For… Read More