November and whether you're just heading into lockdown or just escaping it you need more books. So here's November's selection ...

 In England i've lit the first fires of the autumn and settled down to read. It might not be so chilly all over the world but whether by...

Autumn, cooler weather (perhaps, depending on where you are?) - back to school, back to work, back to some sort of new normal for most of us...

August's Tsundoku may not find you on a beach sadly - or if it does then it's probably the closest beach to your house. But summer r...

If you're out of lockdown lucky you - you can go to the park and read. If you're still in lockdown then you can stay in and read. It...

A world cautiously restarting in many ways - bookshops adapting and reopening, online sales booming as people still read. We do hope so. Tim...

It's out second Tsundoku of lockdown and maybe we have a problem - fewer books than normal are being published but maybe, if you're ...

Lockdown for so many of us may (and I emphasise ‘may’) mean a chance to get to that tottering tsundoku at last. Also plenty of booksellers a...

Tsundoku #7 for March 2020, a tad late, but hopefully worth it. So let’s see how high we can get those tsundoku’s this month….and be hon...

Welcome to issue #6 of Tsundoku – a column by me, Paul French, aiming to make that pile of ‘must read’ books by your bed a little more teete...

Welcome to issue #4 of Tsundoku – a column by me, Paul French, aiming to make that pile of ‘must read’ books by your bed a little m...

Welcome to issue 3 of Tsundoku – a column by me, Paul French, aiming to make that pile of ‘must read’ books by your bed a little more teeter...

Welcome to issue 3 of Tsundoku – a column by me, Paul French, aiming to make that pile of ‘must read’ books by your bed a little more teeter...

Welcome to issue 2 of Tsundoku – a column by me, Paul French, aiming to make that pile of ‘must read’ books by your bed a little more tee...

I’ve opted to call this monthly missive on forthcoming books, tsundoku, the Japanese word for all those books that pile up by your bedside...