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On 26th March 2025, The Willoughby Book Club were so excited to be featured on Lorraine!  Amy Dowden curated the Ultimate Gift Guide For Mother’s Day and Lorraine’s team reached out to us to ask if we could be included in the lineup. And of course, we said yes! You can watch the full clip on YouTube here, or on ITV here. In the clip, Amy showcased some popular Mother’s Day products and recommended The Willoughby Book Club as the go-to book subscription service! Amy Dowden’s Ultimate Mother’s Day Gift Guide! Featured amongst the likes of Champneys, Elizabeth Scarlett and...

Mother’s Day is  almost here, and we’re excited to shout about the lovely mums in our lives! We all know one day will never be enough to beam and gloat about our favourite women, but it does give us the opportunity to treat them in the best way we know how: books! So, how about foregoing the chocolates this year and opting for an interesting read instead? We’ve compiled a varied list of books that mothers of all tastes will enjoy, so read on for some curated gifting inspiration.

Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke Lord Jim at Home was originally published in 1973 and I can understand after reading why it fell out of publication. Unusual, dark, and unsettling, Brooke's second novel traces the strange life of Giles Trenchard, from his distant and loveless upper-middle class childhood in Cornwall, to his time serving in the infantry during WWII, on towards his spiralling descent into violence. It's a fantastic, scathing examination of the hypocrisies and casual cruelty of upper-class society in the early 20th century, peeling the veneer away in big fat strips. You'll ask: are psychopaths born or...

Ahh, Valentine's Day. A day for love and romance and all those lovely, fuzzy things we probably should be doing all year round! But alas, it's still rather charming to dedicate a specific day to your beloved and/or favourite person.  We love reading about love in the Willoughby office. In fact, we love love almost as much as we love reading!  With that in mind, we wanted to share with you some books, both old and new, that we can't wait to dig in to over the Valentine's period, to extend the fuzziness for an extra few days!   A...