Books
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Ready, set cook! 9 new cookbooks for Autumn
Want to switch up your meal plan for the new season? Or just a sucker for tempting pictures of food? If any of the above apply, Wallingford Bookshop has you covered
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Bookmark this! Best indie bookshops in Bucks and Oxon
Forget online shopping - there's nothing like getting lost in a great bookshop (is it just me who loves the smell?). To celebrate Bookshop Day this month, here are some of our fave local indies to support.
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Autumn reads: 8 new books to get stuck into
Page turners, psychological dramas, a who dunnit and the latest book from the writer of Big Little Lies. We've got your next book club/sofa/commute read... sorted.
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High brow vs low brow: Muddy’s holiday reads
Need a new page-turner? From high brow tomes that'll impress your book club to bingable guilty pleasures, here's what we're *really* reading this summer.
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8 cool new coffee table books
Can't be bothered to read a novel right now? No problem, have a languid browse through the best new coffee table books instead, with a little help from Abingdon's Mostly Books.
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Best new books for June 2021
It's time to get that summer reading list together so we've roped in our friends at The Marlow Bookshop to give us the lowdown on the brand new titles coming out this month.
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Best new books for May
Got a book-shaped space on your bedside table? Well, our friends at award-winning Indie bookshop Mostly Books in Abingdon are here to suggest their favourites out this month.
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May’s top releases for Children’s Book Week
It's Children's Book Week! Need some new reading material for your little bookbugs? These seven new releases should have them captivated (and quiet).
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Best new books out this April
What better way to embrace a new season that with a new slew of books? Our friends at The Book House, Thame, have offered up their favourites of the month.
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Get lost in a good book: February’s new releases
Looking for that next juicy read? Wallingford indie bookshop owner Ali Jinks reveals the new tomes she's most looking forward to curling up with this month. Bye-bye reading rut.
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Books for bright sparks – a top school librarian’s picks
Magdalen College School in Oxford is one of the top academic successes in the UK. Where better to tap up for smart suggestions on the best books to captivate kids?
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The best cookbooks to buy now
Sick of making the same seven dinners, week in, week out? Or just a sucker for tempting pictures of food? If any of the above apply, we’ve got you covered.
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Presents sorted! 10 best books to gift in 2020
Books make for excellent Christmas presents - but with so many stunners coming out this year, which ones to gift? We picked the brain of local indie bookshop, Mostly Books in Abingdon
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Your ultimate autumn culture planner 2020
Culture vultures, grab your diaries. Here's your Muddy-curated cheat sheet to the season's best art, theatre, TV, books and film in the UK.
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Culture vulture: my June hitlist
Less time propping up bars means more time enjoying the creative arts right?! Here's what I'm loving this month.
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Kids driving you nuts? The best parenting books
And we all thought parenting was hard BEFORE lockdown. Jeez! We've got five brilliant new books that promise to help.
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10 of the best gardening books
Fancy getting all green fingered in the garden but don't really know where to start? Here's a helping hand with 10 terrific tomes to add to your reading list.
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5 things I’ve learned about motherhood
Acclaimed author (and Muddy favourite) Clover Stroud is in the midst of raising her 5 children. Miraculously she's found time to write a book about it all. Here's a taster.
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Muddy’s 10 best books of 2019
So many rip-roaring reads, so little time. But Muddy's books editor Kerry Potter has made it easy for you - here's her definitive list of the year's best books. Get stuck in!
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The top 10 books of the summer
Don't pack your suitcase or load up your Kindle until you've read this! Muddy's books editor Kerry has picked the 10 best books to get stuck into on holiday.