This is a fascinating character study in which we catch up with our protagonist at various points in her life.

We're all rushed for time these days, but even so, the fact that one in three people in the UK doesn't regularly read for pleasure is a shock.

Sylvia Topp recounts the relationship George Orwell had with his first wife Eileen Maud O'Shaugnessy, in a new book. British author suggests Eileen's poem inspired a novel by Orwell.

Zeba Talkhani who was raised in Saudi Arabia, reflects on her journey to self-discovery in a memoir. Author describes growing up in a culture where women were both 'invisible and hyper visible.

Ian McEwan's latest novel is set in 1982, but not that of historical record. Here, after a disastrous British defeat in the Falklands, Labour leader Tony Benn is demanding the resignation Mrs Thatcher.

Journalist Alice Vincent has written about finding peace in her plants after a breakup. Rootbound: Rewilding A Life described how her long-term boyfriend broke up with her over breakfast.

Published just before his 90th birthday, this delightful book is a visual memoir of David Gentleman's 70 years in London, told through his distinctive artwork and fascinating commentary.

Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau have written a collection of essays on the behaviour of birds. A Short Philosophy Of Birds looks at how they interact with each other.

Richard Layard, an economist, has written a study into how society can be happier. He has long promoted happiness as a better measure of society's progress than GDP.

Ariana Neumann (left) wrote When Time Stopped: A Memoir Of My Father's War about Hans (right), her doting Dad. It started when she found an old ID card tucked away.

The first major exhibition of David Hockney drawings in over 20 years garners rave reviews at the National Portrait Gallery

This chilling thriller tells a haunting story of reconciliation, obsession and revenge. Rose Gold Watts believed she was ill until she was 18.

Michael Coveney celebrates amateur theatricals in a fascinating new book. The theatre critic estimates that there are around 2,500 amateur dramatic societies in Britain.

Kate Murphy shares advice for improving your listening skills in a new book. The author who lives in the U.S, claims we're encouraged to listen to our guts, but rarely to listen carefully to others.

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel draws on love, grief, loneliness, fear, separation, anger, jealousy, frustration in This Too Shall Pass and the demands that each issue comes with.

Award-winning short-story writer Persaud has developed one of her stories into this intricate examination.

The utterly beguiling characters from Pulley's debut The Watchmaker Of Filigree Street make a much-anticipated reappearance here.

A woman comes across a ten-year-old boy alone in a forest car park on a freezing New Year's Day

Sebastian Barry is currently reading Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty And Time by Gaia Vince. He said he was unable to read until he was eight.

Mudlarking was once the desperate last resort of London's poorest inhabitants, who salvaged scraps from the muddy banks of the Thames.

Tamsin Westhorpe is the head gardener at Stockton Bury in Hertfordshire. The former journalist has penned a diary account of the four-acre garden that has been in her family for five generations.

Timmy Mallett is currently reading Peace In War by Edward Seago, The TV presenter said he would take The Secret Footballer series to a desert island.

The largest big cats in the world have long been a source of fascination for different cultures

German historian Volker Ullrich, gives a new account of Hitler's life in a gripping sequel to his mammoth biography of the Fuhrer.

Barry's Costa-winning novel Days Without End told the story of Thomas, who flees the Irish famine and ends up fighting in the American Civil War

Written in just two months by South Korean TV scriptwriter Cho Nam-Joo, this has sold more than a million copies worldwide

It's fifties South London, among the Windrush generation. Twentysomething Lawrie is getting to grips with his new home.

This book will make you think twice about your next holiday in Provence.

'Their humility [is] their own enemy,' writes John Lewis-Stempel of that modest water feature, the pond.

From rustic barns to Georgian houses, from labradors to whippets, this book showcases chic designers and their equally gorgeous dogs at home.

Biographer Hugo Vickers said he would take A. G. Macdonell's satirical interwar novel England, Their England, with him on a desert island.

Hilarious and horrifying in equal measure, this compulsive revenge novel is set in America in 2026,

What's not to like about a betusked teenage priestess-turned-assassin, especially when she's so sweetly lovelorn and tremendously good at fighting?

This debut from Cambridge graduate Moor is vastly impressive and also shines a light on violence and abuse directed at women.

Evie Wyld's powerful, intensely absorbing third novel is haunted by ghosts

Associate professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Adam Kucharski reveals why outbreaks and misinformation spread in his book The Rules of Contagion.

Novelist Annalena McAfee said she would take Palgrave's Golden Treasury on a desert island. She said she is currently reading Self-Portrait, the memoir of the artist Celia Paul.

Why not make flower arranging your self-isolation hobby? In this joyous book, world-renowned flower farmer (what a job title!) Erin Benzakein will teach you.

It is a tough life for Peter Diamond. As head of Bath's CID he is used to doing battle with the criminal class.

The relationship between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen, for whom he wrote So Long, Marianne among others, has already been told on film.

Rachel Johnson reveals the challenges of life in the public eye and behind the scenes of the 'Westminster bubble' in her book, Rake's Progress, My Political Midlife Crisis.

A photograph in this book shows a grim-faced, elderly woman setting fire to a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover outside an Edinburgh bookshop.

Children trapped at home now have at least one reason to celebrate - the long-awaited return of The Wolf Brother series.

Sarah Cheesbrough kept coming across a fellow inhabitant of her road, a squirrel

Sarah J. Maas is currently reading Nalini Singh's A Madness Of Sunshine. The American fantasy novelist revealed that she would take Sally Thorne's The Hating Game to a desert island.

This is a terrifying but vitally important story about an affair between a 15-year-old schoolgirl and her 42-year-old English teacher

Locked in at home, now at least we have time to tackle those blockbuster novels we never got round to

Bourne won multiple plaudits for her Young Adult books but moved into grown-up territory in 2018 with How Do You Like Me Now?

Hold on - wasn't Anne Tyler going to retire? This is her third outing since 2015's A Spool Of Blue Thread, supposedly her final novel

A photograph in Annabel Venning's account of her family in wartime shows the six Walker children in order of height