BookishAs a child, Lucy Mangan was reading all the time, using books to navigate the challenges and complexities of this world and many others. As an adult, she uses her new relationship with literature to seize upon the most important question: (how) do books prepare us for life? 'Bookish' picks up where 'Bookworm' left off: at the cusp of teenage, when everything including the way we read undergoes a not so subtle transformation. Revisiting the books of

war and devastation to become among the richest

For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike race in the world: twice an Olympic gold medallist on the track

We all know that

But what if strangers

or leave some of them out in the cold

At the heart of power is a single family

art and poetry

and during a long

What if you prefer to pick up a book rather than a sword

sympathetic nervous activity

crushed Carpool Karaoke

a uniquely European endeavour