Book of the Month

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.

We asked the reading group members and education department at HMP YOI Isis – where... Read More

Louise Doughty is the author of ten novels, most recently A Bird in Winter, published by... Read More

Until March 2022, Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC served as a judge at the The Central Criminal... Read More

Sarah Waters OBE is a multi-award winning British Author. She has written 6 novels, including Tipping... Read More

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran in 2016 and remained in prison there until she... Read More

Sabrina Mahfouz is a British Egyptian writer. Her theatre shows include A History of Water in the Middle... Read More

Dr. David Maguire (Honorary Senior Research Associate, UCL, Institute of Education) has researched and managed... Read More

The Leviathans is a thriving Prison Reading Group in HMP Wormwood Scrubs. They have very... Read More

Terence Blacker is an author, song-writer and columnist. His first novel Fixx (1996) won critical acclaim and... Read More

Our first Book of the Month for 2024 is recommended by the KS1 & EYFS... Read More

We are incredibly excited that we have two recommendations for our December Book of the... Read More

Patrick Gale is the author of seventeen novels, the most recent of which, Mother’s Boy, is based on... Read More

Stephen Buoro is an author who received the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship while completing an... Read More

Kate Wickers has been a travel writer for over twenty years, regularly contributing to The Telegraph and The Scotsman newspapers, among... Read More

Max Porter is a former bookseller and editor. His first novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers... Read More