Book recommendation for October 2025: “The Colour of Magic” by Terry Pratchett The start of the iconic, and hilarious, Discworld series. It’s not everyone’s recommended starting point for the series but I fell in love with Terry Pratchett’s stories from the moment he redefined the Big Bang Hypothesis in the opening prologue. Who doesn’t need…

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Book recommendation for September 2025: “The Broker” by John Grisham John Grisham is the King of legal thrillers and I’ve read easily a dozen of his books, if not more, and this is my favourite. He is a master story teller and he has never let me down, not to mention the list of excellent…

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Book recommendation for August 2025: “A Game of Thrones” by George R. R. Martin The first instalment in George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, inspired by the Wars of the Roses, it’s gritty and violent and driven by human greed and vanity, with tumultuous politics, backstabbing betrayals, and unexpected…

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Book recommendation for July 2025: “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien This is a true classic of childrens literature—though I would say literature full stop—which holds a special place in my heart because it is the book that made me fall in love with fantasy. I have reread it many times and once bought two copies…

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Book recommendation for May 2025: “Dune” by Frank Herbert This is the most epic of epic science fiction novels and was a winner of both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award (as the inaugural winner). For me, Dune is to science fiction what Lord of the Rings is to fantasy; the pinnacle of the…

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Book recommendation for April 2025: “Elantris” by Brandon Sanderson I think this is the perfect place to start if you like fantasy books but have not yet read anything by Brandon Sanderson, who is perhaps the biggest fantasy writer at present. It’s a standalone novel, which is quite rare in fantasy these days. What’s it…

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Book recommendation for March 2025: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini This is a story that will break your heart, that will leave you cursing the cruelty of man, and make you wish you had never read it just so you could go back and read it again as if for the first time.…

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Book recommendation for February 2025: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho I suspect most of you have heard of the global phenomenon that is, The Alchemist, as it’s sold like 65 million copies or something. If you’ve not, then you are in for a treat. What it’s about: Santiago is a young shepherd in Andalucia who…

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January 2025 book recommendation: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley What better place to start than with the original science fiction novel? And forget what you’ve seen in movie and television adaptations, nothing comes close to reflecting how great this book is or even accurately portraying Dr. Frankenstein’s “monster”. What it’s about: You all know the story,…

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