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  Autumn is in the air, and even those of us who have been in late summer reading ruts have returned the delight and comfort of reading now the weather is on the turn. Having a good book to hand makes a chilly, rainy weekend a pleasure.  Here is what the Willoughby Book Club team have been reading recently. What about you? Have you read anything interesting recently?   All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui (translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins) A debut by the French-Algerian writer Nina Bouraoui, All Men Want to Know is a bold piece of...

Summer is over and a new university semester begins for thousands of fresh-faced students here in the UK. The first signs of Autumn are arriving, with shorter days, the turning of the leaves, and a crisp coolness in the air. It is a window of time that holds a great deal of promise for many, including lovers of all things bookish. Autumn is the perfect time for settling down in a comfy chair with a hot chocolate, thick socks and a big novel. The ‘campus’ novel is always a particular draw during these days. It is a type of fiction...

The Willoughby Book Club has two favourite things: reading and getting outside in the sunshine. We've taken our books on our holidays and to the local park. We've read on the tube and on the bus, outside, inside, and basically anywhere we've found ourselves on our travels. What about you? Send us your favourite pictures of reading in the wild to be in with a chance of winning a subscription or another bookish treat!

The end of summer is already in the air, and thoughts of a new term are beginning to loom. It’s time for thoughts of new term resolutions, new stationery and new regimes to surface, and we've been thinking of ways to re-establish positive habits. Perhaps your children’s usual routines and habits have gone gloriously out of the window for a summer of running free and you are worrying about the routine of the school term? Or perhaps it is your own inner child, remembering the feeling of the discipline that a new term brings that turns thoughts toward re-establishing habits and...