#LovetoRead Features
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Eight books that will make you want to run away with the circus
January Book Clubs
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Exciting page-turners: The books to look forward to in 2018
BBC Radio 4's book experts recommend top reads.
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Want to read more books? Ten tips to help you turn over a new leaf
Handy hints to tackle your book shelf
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Books about women's suffrage that get our vote
Recommended reads in #LoveToRead's February Book Club.
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The ultimate Harry Potter quiz: Are you magic or muggle-born?
As British Library celebrates 20 years of Harry Potter, how muggle are you?
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If you’re not afraid to say Voldemort here are some stories you'll #LoveToRead...
Marking 20 years of Harry Potter
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If Dobby is your hero here are more stories you’ll #LoveToRead...
Books good for your elf-esteem
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If you’re as brainy as Hermoine here are some other stories you’ll #LoveToRead...
You'll fly through these books
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If you’re mischievous like Fred and George Weasley here are some other stories you’ll #LoveToRead...
If the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes is your kind of potion, check out these books
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Love Jane Austen? Then find out what else you'll #LoveToRead
We recommend other titles Austen fans might enjoy.
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Pride and Personalities: which famous faces have worn bonnets and breeches?
Lights, Camera, Austen!
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Quiz: Are you a Jane Austen superfan?
Quiz time: How much do you know about the life and work of Jane Austen?
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How Austen went from family teatime viewing to steamy primetime blockbuster
Changing audience expectations for TV adaptations.
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Quentin Blake on working with a big friendly giant
The illustrator talks about his working relationship with author Roald Dahl.
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Are authors shying away from writing about social media?
A look at the impact of social media in literature.
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Unread classics: The authors' challenge
Authors talk on Radio 4's Front Row about how they fared reading a classic novel.
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Quirks of the job: Young Writer of the Year veterans reveal their creative rituals
Seven previous award-winners divulge their writing eccentricities.
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Gemma Cairney's six books all young people should read
Radio presenter and author Gemma Cairney's books that can help with life’s ups and downs.
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How to get kids off smartphones and into books (sort of)
Some handy hints for the summer holidays
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Who will win the Man Booker Prize 2016?
Meet the authors and slip between the pages of the 2016 Man Booker Prize shortlist.
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Power up: Author Naomi Alderman takes on Doctor Who, superheroes and zombies
Bidisha meets Naomi Alderman to discuss books and secret superhero powers
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Scotland's Favourite Book: The Top Ten
The top ten revealed for the public vote for Scotland's Favourite Book.
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Where do you love to read your favourite book...?
The presenters of Books that Made Britain share where they love to read
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Ticket stubs, bacon and sheep poo: what do you use for a bookmark?
Some of the weird and wonderful objects people use to mark their place in a book.
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#LovetoRead: Celebrating the pleasures of reading
Reading and books take over the autumn schedules
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Are you emotionally attached to your books?
Sue Wilkinson explains why she returns to some stories repeatedly
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Can a book really make you laugh out loud?
Can books really make you lol?
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Eight tennis-inspired reads to enjoy in the sunshine
Booksellers serve up some ace tennis themed book titles
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Football books to keep you on side
As the football season kicks off we look at the books with a soccer flavour
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Harry Potter is top of the class
JK Rowling classic is the book most adults think every kid should read.
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How Beatrix Potter is helping to save Britain's hedgehogs
Hugh Warwick explains how Mrs Tiggy-Winkle changed how we view the spiky garden visitors
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Muriel's spark: Recommended reads inspired by one of Scotland's most iconic writers
Dame Muriel Spark centenary
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Never can say goodbye: Great literary comebacks
The characters to whom authors just can't say goodbye
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Six wonderful ways Virago shook up the world of books
6 things about virago
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Tartan Noir: A very strange beast
Stuart McBride on the history of Scottish crime fiction.
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The best school books that EVERYONE should read
The English Literature set texts we all should have in our bag
