Book of the Month
By Give a Book
Book of the Month
By Give a Book
To promote and inspire reading, each month we invite a special guest to recommend a book. This can be the children's book that first inspired them to read or a book that has particularly meant something to them.
Book of the Month titles are then sent to our various projects to enjoy - and now you can enjoy them too!
We've received recommendations from a number of inspiring individuals including Dame Penelope Wilton, Neil Gaiman, Russell Brand and Cathy Rentzenbrink.
Take a look at our eclectic mix of monthly recommendations and purchase your copies below!
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times
Kit de Waal
£10.99 £10.44
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden
£9.99 £9.49
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
Hisham Matar
£10.99 £10.44Recommended by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
£7.99 £7.59Recommended by The Leviathans Reading Group at HMP Wormwood Scrubs
The Leaf Thief
Alice Hemming and Nicola Slater
£7.99 £7.59Recommended by Pupils at Longwood Primary School
In Love with the World: What a Monk Can Teach You About Living from Nearly Dying
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
£10.99 £10.44Recommended by Rory Stewart
Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care
Dr Jim Down
£18.99 £18.04Recommended by Alastair Campbell
Tell No-One About This: Collected Short Stories 1975-2017
Jacob Ross
£14.99 £14.24Recommended by Bernardine Evaristo
Great Expectations (Graphic Art Collector's Edition)
Charles Dickens
£6.99 £6.64Recommended by Sarah Waters
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: ‘hilarious, tender, absurd, delightful and charming’ Nina Stibbe
Seamas O'Reilly
£10.99 £10.44
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
Chinua Achebe
£8.99 £8.54Recommended by Ronke Phillips, Senior News Correspondent
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Jane Austen
£14.99 £14.24Recommended by Edna O'Brien, winner of The Pleasure of Reading Prize, 2022
The Bronte Sisters (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions): Three Novels
Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte, et al.
£35.00 £33.25Recommended by Edna O'Brien, winner of The Pleasure of Reading Prize, 2022
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
£7.99 £7.59Recommended by Edna O'Brien, winner of The Pleasure of Reading Prize, 2022
Featherhood: 'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years
Charlie Gilmour
£8.99 £8.54Recommended by David Kendal, Prison Reading Groups
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
Lady Antonia Fraser
£14.99 £14.24Recommended by Give a Book
The Leopard: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
£9.99 £9.49Recommended by Colin Firth
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes
£14.99 £14.24Recommended by Martin Rees
Uncle Fred in the Springtime: (Blandings Castle)
P.G. Wodehouse
£9.99 £9.49Recommended by Rowan Atkinson
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
John Lahr and Kenneth Tynan
£20.00 £19.00Recommended by Anne Robinson, Presenter
Last Stop on Market Street
Matt de la Pena and Christian Robinson
£7.99 £7.59Recommended by Eoin McLaughlin, Children's Author
Notes from an Exhibition: A thought-provoking and stunning classic novel of marriage, art and the secrets of family life
Patrick Gale
£10.99 £10.44Recommended by Chris Thompson, Playwright
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