We're up to our oxters here with Christmas orders (thank you so much, each of you who have ordered with...

As the frenzy of Black Friday and intensity of the Christmas period begin to step up, The Willoughby Book Club...

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

Christmas Gift Guide Christmas is fast approaching, and at The Willoughby Book Club we're excited for the festive season! The...

Kala by Colin Walsh I read Kala on the glowing recommendation of Marianne and it didn't disappoint! It's a literary...

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

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

Poor by Katriona O'Sullivan This is a truly compelling read about the complexities of a childhood spent in poverty.  Katriona...

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

  Autumn is in the air, and even those of us who have been in late summer reading ruts have...

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

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?

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, the season for reading outside, is in full swing! Whether it be on a lovely holiday or even in your...