This Month's Book

November 2026

Our Book of the Month


Each month Michelle hand-picks one outstanding book and delivers it in a beautiful subscription box, straight to your door. This month, we are reading How to Read a Book by Monica Wood.

How to Read a Book by Monica Wood book cover

How to Read a Book

By Monica Wood

The runaway international word-of-mouth bestseller.

One bookshop. A thousand ways to rewrite a life.

A beautiful, big-hearted novel about grief, forgiveness and starting over.

A reminder that goodness, kindness and books can still win.

Monica Wood author photo

Monica Wood

Meet the Author

Monica Wood is a writer of quiet power. Her books often begin with ordinary people in recognisable places: a bookshop, a prison classroom, a Maine town, a family home after a death.

Her earlier novels, including Secret Language, My Only Story and Any Bitter Thing, return to family, memory, separation and forgiveness. She is also the author of The One-in-a-Million Boy, and has written books on writing, including Description, The Pocket Muse and The Pocket Muse 2.

📅 Join Us Online

Our November book club meeting is on Tuesday 3rd November at 19.00 UK time. Everyone is welcome, whether you have finished the book, dipped in, or have not started yet. Zoom details are shared via our newsletter and Facebook group.

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