Mick Clifford: Put away the phones and lose yourself in these four books from 2025
From politics and power to sport and memoir, these books reward patience, curiosity, and time away from the scroll.
Hopefully, these books are to your taste, but if not go out and buy another book, sit down and escape into another world for an hour or two, phoneless. File photo: Alamy/PA
It’s the time of year when this column performs its societal duty and recommends what we like to call bukes.Â
Reading is not what it used to be. I haven’t seen deep research but I’d bet my phone that attention spans right across every demographic have been squeezed in the age of scrolling and algorithms.
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