What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July
Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
July 2023
Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and PepsiCo named UK’s biggest packaging polluters
Surfers Against Sewage’s annual audit finds 12 companies responsible for 70% of branded pollution
First edition of The Hobbit found in Dundee charity shop sells for £10,000
The book, which is one of the first 1,500 copies printed in 1937 and contains illustrations by JRR Tolkien, was discovered in the backroom at a Cancer Research UK store
‘To be a writer means to discover a truth’: Milan Kundera – a life in quotes
The Czech author has died at the age of 94. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews and articles over the course of his career
