The Willoughby Book Club Reading Challenge 2025 - The Willoughby Book Club
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The Willoughby Book Club Reading Challenge 2025

It's a brand new year, and it's time for the 2025 Willoughby Book Club Reading Challenge! Read along with us...

Book recommendations for the Winter Solstice - The Willoughby Book Club
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Book recommendations for the Winter Solstice

Despite the seeping cold and darker days, we think winter is one of the most magical times of the year. The...

Our Favourite Books of 2024 - The Willoughby Book Club
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Our Favourite Books of 2024

2024 is drawing to a close and we've been discussing our favourite reads of the year. It's been an interesting twelve...

Cosy Reads for Cold Dark Nights - The Willoughby Book Club
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Cosy Reads for Cold Dark Nights

It's that time of year when all we want to do is close the curtains, wrap ourselves in blankets and...

The Best Books We've Received As Gifts - The Willoughby Book Club
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The Best Books We've Received As Gifts

Receiving a book as a gift is possibly one of the loveliest things to experience as a reader. As a...

Willoughby Reads Children's Books! - The Willoughby Book Club
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Willoughby Reads Children's Books!

As half term has arrived, we thought we'd read outside our normal parameters and dive into some children's reads for...

Books that scared us as children - The Willoughby Book Club
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Books that scared us as children

Do you ever think about the spooky, creepy or downright strange books you read as a young child? The ones...

What should I read now? Let the tarot pick your next book! - The Willoughby Book Club
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What should I read now? Let the tarot pick your next book!

Are you stuck for something to read? Perhaps you’ve finished a great novel and looking for something to cure your...

University Days: Why We Love a Campus Novel - The Willoughby Book Club
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University Days: Why We Love a Campus Novel

Summer is over and a new university semester begins for thousands of fresh-faced students here in the UK. The first...

Happy Readers for Life: on reading with your children - The Willoughby Book Club
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Happy Readers for Life: on reading with your children

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 routines?

Women in Translation Month - The Willoughby Book Club
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Women in Translation Month

It’s August, which means The Willoughby Book Club is celebrating Women in Translation Month. The team is passionate about reading books from all over the world and promoting work written by women. 

Now more than ever, we believe we need to read diversely, from across a spectrum of experiences, to expand our interests and to read with open-minded curiosity.

Summer is here for a few more weeks and the mornings and afternoons are still long, making it the perfect period to read plenty of exciting books and to spotlight writers overlooked by the wider publishing world, as well as some classic favourites that have stood the test of time.

Summer reads for a little escapism! - The Willoughby Book Club
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Summer reads for a little escapism!

For the Willoughby Book Club, summer is the ultimate reading season! For some of us (cough, Alisha, cough), we have...

Travel Europe in Books- we explore European fiction - The Willoughby Book Club
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Travel Europe in Books- we explore European fiction

Here at the Willoughby Book Club, we’re always keen to discover interesting books to take with us to our summer...

Matching the Bookshelf to the Reader: what our book shelves say about us - The Willoughby Book Club
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Matching the Bookshelf to the Reader: what our book shelves say about us

We recently asked you to have a go at matching the book shelf to the reader, and we got a...

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