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Mother's Day: The Willoughby Team Select Books for their Mums - The Willoughby Book Club

Mother's Day: The Willoughby Team Select Books for their Mums

As it's Mother's Day this weekend, we thought we'd do what we love most- choosing books- but this time for our own mums. It's a real privilege to be trusted to select books for our subscribers. As readers we love having books suggested to us, so to be able to do that for others is a real treat. We aim to surprise and delight our subscribers with every book that arrives, so let's see how we get on doing the same with our biggest supporters, our mums!

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Marianne Chala
What We've Been Reading - The Willoughby Book Club

What We've Been Reading

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong I'm (as usual!) late to the runaway success that is On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, but after hearing Ocean Vuong speak on several podcasts I was keen to give this a try. I also absolutely love the title- how could you not want to read something with that title? Written as a letter from a son to his illiterate mother, this is heartrending from the very start. Narrated by the son Little Dog, in his late twenties, this book gradually uncovers a family history of war in Vietnam, of intergenerational trauma, and...

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Marianne Chala
Titles we're looking forward to reading in 2024! - The Willoughby Book Club

Titles we're looking forward to reading in 2024!

It's almost March and the team has been eagerly awaiting the arrival of some exciting new publications for 2024. We've been flipping through publisher catalogues, reading online reviews and watching author interviews, to compile the list of books we're most looking forward to getting to this year. Though by no means exhaustive, we hope some of these varied titles pique your interest and are added to your own creaking bookshelves! Let us know what you can't wait to read this year.   Marianne I'm not usually driven by trying to read titles as soon as they are released, but there are quite a few...

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Marianne Chala
Reading Romance, and some Valentine's Day reading suggestions - The Willoughby Book Club

Reading Romance, and some Valentine's Day reading suggestions

Valentine's Day is upon us once again, which inevitably means the Willoughby team have been discussing the romance books we've read or considered recently. Our first loves will always be books, and the characters brought to life through the magic of words. Our interests and reading preferences, when it comes to the romance genre, are rather different. Where one of us might prefer general fiction with love as a theme secondary to friendships or familial relationships, another would prefer romance front and central to the plot. Romantic fantasy or 'romantasy' is a particular favourite genre for one of the Willoughby...

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