Welcome to the Ten-Minute Book Club! The Ten-Minute Book Club is an exploration of a wide-ranging collection of irresistibly engaging texts that can all be read in a few minutes wherever you are and whenever you have time. 

While each of the ninety brief texts is its own little bounded moment of reading, they are all at the same time ripe with invitations to make connections: to other texts, to other people, to other worlds. 

The book is an anthology with a twist, with the featured books covering all periods, forms and genres, offering instantly appealing reading material on every emotion from joy to terror. 

It includes well-known writers such as William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and Emily Dickinson alongside early twentieth-century authors including E.M. Forster, James Joyce and Willa Cather. You will also find writers from the Harlem Renaissance, the women’s rights movement of the early twentieth century and from across the globe.

"The magic of this beautifully curated book is that you can spend ten satisfying minutes on a perfect short text – or you can be led into a lifetime of sparkling reading possibilities." ̶ Marion Turner

Ten-Minute Book Club: Deep Dives into Short Reads by Kirsten E. Shepherd, Alexandra Paddock and Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla £16.99, Hardback, 9 August 2026