Here are some book recommendations extracted from our contributors’ responses to our lockdown reading questions – just click on the title to read what they said about the book:
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
For Esmé, with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
Other Minds: the octopus and the evolution of intelligent life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Missing Lynx by Ross Barnet
Dr James Barry: a woman ahead of her time by Michael Du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield
Acts and Omissions by Catherine Fox
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Music to Eat Cake By Lev Parikian
Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel
The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel
Bookworm by Lucy Mangan
Conclave by Robert Harris
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Swan Song – Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
The Salt Path – Raynor Winn
Mudlarking – Lara Maiklem
Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
Let It Go – Dame Stephanie Shirley and Richard Askwith