BookishAs a child, Lucy Mangan was reading all the time, using books to navigate the challenges and complexities of this world and many others. As an adult, she uses her new relationship with literature to seize upon the most important question: (how) do books prepare us for life? 'Bookish' picks up where 'Bookworm' left off: at the cusp of teenage, when everything including the way we read undergoes a not so subtle transformation. Revisiting the books of

And what better place to get to the heart of these problems than

leading secret operations just miles away from the family her mother left behind all those years ago

Everyone likes Julia

but we need to learn how to breathe properly

a very funny book' Sunday Times

and then to one of the world's last remaining wildernesses

through cardigans and pearls

THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE

behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine

A celebratory reissue of two bestselling poetry collaborations by Michael Rosen and Quentin Blake

'Dictionary of Fine Distinctions' explores the world of the vanishingly small

A little boy meets lots of interesting characters in his search to find a friend's house in this gorgeously illustrated lift-the-flap story from Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb