The Haunted Wood : A History of Childhood ReadingAuthor: Leith, Sam United Kingdom, Great Britain Published on 4 September 2025 by Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom. Paperback 592 pages 197 x 130 x 49 512g *A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024*Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in

And they in turn trusted him

really ready to be treated like grown ups

old friends gather for New Year

Frustrated

monsters and magic' Daily MailThere is no Magic here on Earth

So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow

Sunday Times'A masterpiece' - Spectator'Magnificent

'A gem of a book

award-winning author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain to the wider world

app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation

I will free her

' EMERITUS PROFESSOR DAVID WILSON