Give a subscription to the TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

 

 

Looking for a gift subscription for someone who wants depth, expertise and breadth in their reading and lots of culture?  How about giving them a subscription to the Times Literary Supplement, or the TLS for short, or treating yourself to one?

Take a look at the Times Literary Supplement (TLS for short)!

The TLS covers a range of subjects such as the arts, classics, culture, history, language and linguistics, literature, lives philosophy, politics and society, religion, science and technology and the world.  It has been publishing book reviews and sometimes provocative essays since 1902, and it covers everything from The Tempest to climate change.   

The Times Literary Supplement considers itself to be a the world’s leading journal for literature and ideas;  over the years its contributors have included people such as Virginia Woolf, Henry James, T S Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Ted Hughes, Martin Amis, George Orwell, Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood.  Today, contributors often include Adam Begley, James Cook, Adam Mars-Jones, Krishan Kumar, Margaret Drabble, James Marcus and Henry Hitchings.  And last year, it was the Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award! 

In the week of the 12th December 2025 the TLS includes:

  • British literature, Book Review:  Object of attention:  Marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth by Devoney Looser
  • Social & cultural studies, Book Review:  Wise fools: Irritating professors for the ages by Peter Thonemann
  • Film, Arts Review:  Worlds apart:  A new film asks what to make of our memories by Francesca Tiana
  • History, Book Review:   Home thougths:  A journey into a nation's past by David Horspool
  • Twentieth-century history & later, Book Review:  Paradise lost: How women’s liberation in Russia became a domestic trap by Wendy Slater
  • Fiction, Book Review:  'I' becomes 'she': A writer looks back on how she began by Kevin Brazil
  • Original poems:  Snow by Andrew Motion
  • Autobiography, Book Review:  Restless spirit:  What a Pussy Rioter did next by Bradley A. Gorski
  • Natural history, Book Review:  How the land lies:  Geology, history and myth by Helen Gordon
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Shattered continuity: A fragile truce with writing by Sheena Joughin
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:   Pennants and pin badges: Artefacts of sporting success and failure by Jude Horspool
  • In Brief, In Brief Review: Disorientated by snowfall: Selma Lagerlöf's life and work reflected through her stories by Paul Binding
  • and LOTS more!

So there are lots to immerse yourself in with articles on Fiction, Arts, Original Poems, Afterthoughts, In Brief (that's articles which get straight to the point), and podcasts, too - so there's a huge amount to immerse yourself in and discover and think about!  There are also regular features, such as cartoons, a weekly literary crossword and quiz, a regular online column looking at the ethical issues today, and Letters to the Editor.  

 

Subscribe to the TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, here

Different subscription options…

There are two different options:  digital - and print and digital.  You can compare them and subscribe here.  The digital is the most affordable (one month free, £6.99 a month thereafter) - it includes:

  • Unrestricted access to the TLS website and appunstres
  • Full use of the TLS Archive starting in 1902
  • TLS first-look with the weekly newsletter

The best value is £89.99 for the year - it's print and digital.  As well as those benefits listed above, it also includes the print edition delivered to your door fortnightly.   Monthly, it's £8.99.   

 

Give a gift subscription to the Times Literary Supplement today!
Give a gift subscription or treat yourself to the Times Literary Supplement today!

You can view TLS Highlights here to get a further idea of some of the content which the TLS has included.  In August 2025, these included..

  • Life beyond literature: A year without reading
  • What lies ahead for fiction?: AI, literary theory and traditional storytelling
  • Croissants and coq au vin: Eating your way through the arrondissements
  • Anti-modernist crusader: King Charles’s interventions in public debates about architecture
  • Inadmissable evidence: A woman’s fight for justice in a strict Jewish sect
  • More, now, again: To what extent are addicts responsible for their actions?

To purchase a (gift) subscription

Just choose your subscription here and then create a username on the following page.  After that, you can purchase the TLS subscription on behalf of someone else by simply ticking the relevant boxes!  Go to the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) here!