Bookish: A Love Letter to Reading

Lucy Mangan
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Bookish: A Love Letter to Reading

Lucy Mangan
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304 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Published date: Apr 28, 2026
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 304
  • Publisher: Random House UK
  • ISBN: 9781529967180
  • Dimensions: 5.09" W x 0.73" L x 7.76" H
An affectionate, warm guide on the healing power of reading.—Independent

Comforting, funny and moving - Bookish is wonderful to curl up with on good days and bad.—Sali Hughes

A bookworm’s delight. A joyous whistle stop tour through some books I’ve loved all my life as well as books I discovered through reading it. I devoured this book.—Sara Collins

Lucy Mangan on books is like butter on toast: perfect.—Caitlin Moran

Such a gorgeous writer… Funny, warm and charming… A beautiful, warm, comic voice. If you’re a passionate reader, this book feels like the best conversation ever with another of your kind. I was engaged, comforted, educated (about SO much). I laughed, and wanted to be part of your family, and made lists of all the books I need to buy, and was very moved.—Marian Keyes

What Mangan does brilliantly is express the experience of reading and articulate the emotional connections we make with stories. She understands how books become entwined in our lives and help us make sense of the world.—Observer (Bookworm)

An unabashed paean to the pleasure of acquiring more books than you could ever possibly read in your life… a whirlwind tour through her [Mangan’s] voracious, encyclopedic adult reading habit… This is a book by someone whom reading is life—Spectator

Bookish… tackles the myriad complexities of adulthood…[Mangan] makes for a wonderfully incisive critic and can pick apart a George Orwell with the same perspicacity with which she can, say, a Jack Reacher, or the lesser-known Brontë sister, Anne—Observer

Readers won’t share all of Mangan’s preferences, but that’s part of the point – it’s enjoyable enough to eavesdrop on the pleasures of a committed bookworm… A book on books needs marginalia, and this one doesn’t disappoint—Times Literary Supplement

Brimful of recommendations, packed with insights and sprinkled with wry observations, Bookish is a delight—Simple Things
Lucy Mangan is the TV critic for The Guardian, and a columnist, features writer and reviewer for Stylist magazine, The Telegraph and many other publications. She broadcasts frequently on radio and occasionally on television, and is the author of Bookworm, My Family and Other Disasters, The Reluctant Bride, Hopscotch and Handbags and Inside Charlie’s Chocolate Factory.

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