Sara Collins

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lisa Allardice |William Boyd |Sara Collins |Justine Jordan |Nikesh Shukla |Jeffrey Boakye

According to new data from YouGov, 40% of British adults have not read a single book in the last year, with the median Briton having read or listened to three. In a world where there are so many other distractions and forms of entertainment to choose from, fewer and fewer people are getting stuck into books – yet lots of us would like to be reading more. So we asked authors, booksellers and critics to choose the book they think you should read this year – even if you only read one.

1 month ago | slj.com | Julie Murphy |Sara Collins

Gr 2-4–Murphy’s chapter book offers readers a fun mystery to solve along with very likable characters. Catty is half-cat and half-girl, just like her mom. She likes things quiet and needs a place to scratch when she gets overwhelmed. She has two great friends: Bebe is organized, just like her chef mom, but Jo’s life and household is complete chaos.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Sara Collins

‘Novels had always felt to me truer than what was real,” declares a character in Dream Count, the highly anticipated new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is a statement echoed in the accompanying author’s note, which contends that the “point of art is to look at our world and be moved by it, and then to engage in a series of attempts at clearly seeing that world, interpreting it, questioning it”.

Jan 10, 2025 | slj.com | Sara Collins |Andrea Beatriz

Toddler-PreS–Hwang’s Bunny is back. Bunny is hungry and discovers a grocery bag. Bunny tips it over and tries all of the foods inside. By the end, Bunny is full and tired, and then needs to use the bathroom. Each page has a maximum of two words, and the repetitive nature makes it an easy story for emerging readers to memorize and read on their own.

Dec 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | Richard Ayoade |William Boyd |Bernardine Evaristo |David Baddiel |Sara Collins |Tom Holland | +1 more

1.Richard Ayoade: The line “What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” is from which novel? 2.What is the colour of Holden Caulfield’s hunting hat? 3.What is Bertie Wooster’s middle name? 4.William Boyd: In which James Bond novel did Bond get married? On Her Majesty’s Secret Service5.Which one of these American poets did not die by suicide? 6.Which of these South American writers did not win the Nobel prize?