We know how difficult it is to find time to settle with a cracking book and we’re determined to make it so that whenever you do, you’re reading nuggets of gold. Here, we give you our pick of 2025’s new releases.

The City Changes Its Face By Eimear Mcbride


The City Changes Its Face

Emotions, secrets and ambitions come bubbling to the surface in this masterful novel, set in the 1990s, about… love. Order this, the latest offering from award-winning Irish novelist Eimear McBride, immediately.


Our Evenings By Alan Hollinghurst


Our Evenings

It is with great pleasure that we inform you that Hollinghurst’s new book has been described by The Guardian as ‘the finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time’. Immaculately rendered, it is the story of gay life in England from the narrator’s 1960s childhood through to the onset of the pandemic.


How To Design A Garden And Then Look After It By Pollyanna Wilkinson


How To Design A Garden

If Pollyanna Wilkinson isn’t on your radar, she ought to be. We’ve followed her feverishly for some time on both Instagram and her podcast The Ins & Outs. Now, to please us yet more, she has published the book that all nervous gardeners need. Trust us: you are in capable hands with Polly.


The Last Truths We Told By Holly Watt


 The Last Truths We Told

Watt was an award-winning investigative journalist before she turned her hand to crime fiction. She is absolutely nailing it, with this latest creation being described as a riff on Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Say no more.


Make Change That Lasts By Dr Rangan Chatterjee


Make Change That Lasts

Here at The Guide, we are big fans of the uber influential GP Rangan Chatterjee, so it is nothing but a joy to us when he publishes a new book. This one promises to help us make lasting changes to our lifestyle in nine simple ways.


When Gavin Met Stacey And Everything In Between By James Corden & Ruth Jones


When Gavin Met Stacey And Everything In Between

You will have to wait until October for this one – but fans of the show will be richly rewarded. Revelations and observations are woven through this fascinating tale of how Gavin & Stacey came to take its place among the great sitcoms of TV history.


Dare I Say It? By Naomi Watts


Dare I Say It

Sure, there has now been many a tome written on the thorny old issue of menopause. But that is because our appetite for the subject continues to grow. You will find this book by Hollywood babe Naomi Watts to be like a supportive and nourishing chat with a friend. With personal stories and those from her pals, Watts has written the book she wished she could have read when she began her menopause journey.