Summer books: why escapist fiction is good for you

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Laura Battle, Deputy Books Editor at the Financial Times, gives her book picks and also tells us how social media, particularly TikTok’s #BookTok, has disrupted the global publishing industry and had a big impact on business.
And Ella Berthoud, a ‘bibliotherapist’ who uses the power of books to help people through tough times and who wrote ‘The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies’ lists her favourite escapist fiction.

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