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Book length – does it matter?

This year’s Man Booker winner, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, is the longest novel to win the prize, at 832 pages. Robert Macfarlane, the Chair of the judges, doesn’t reckon its length will put off readers, saying, “length never poses a problem if it’s a great...

The book purchasing process

How do you decide what book to read or buy? Are you influenced by reviews in newspapers, magazines and online – or perhaps you go by what your friends are reading and enjoying, or the latest book your book club has chosen? Goodreads recently asked 1000 of its members...