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Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for September plus a new-look, limited-edition Booker Prizes tote bag  

‘He sometimes thought she was the kind of person who might choose to bring the house down simply to find out what kind of noise it made’

Dreamlike and unsettling, The Witch is set in a small French town where a mediocre witch passes on her gifts to her twin daughters, who turn out to have skills far beyond her own

Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for June, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag

Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for August, plus a new-look, limited-edition Booker Prizes tote bag

John Self uncovers how Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black is a ghost story, a condition-of-England novel and a meditation on the power of memory
 

Writer and book lover Sarah Gwonyoma picked up A Little Life in the midst of a personal loss. Here, she reveals how the novel allowed her to process her pain

What I’d Rather Not Think About is Jente Posthuma’s deeply moving exploration of grief, told through brief, precise vignettes and full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour