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 28th November 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Fiction, Book Review:  Not real but here too:  Late stories of a self-styled 'arguer with the world' by Ruth Scurr
  • Twentieth-century history & later, Book Review: Stealing the state:  How crime organises the world by Peter Geoghegan
  • Twentieth-century history & later:  Past masters:  A revealing series of interviews with historians by David Gelber
  • Sport, Arts Review:   Fast and furious:  Caribbean cricket in England by David Kynaston
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Forged truths:  A daughter comes to terms with a mother's lack of love by Rhoda Kwan
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Pioneer or murderer?   A young girl finds herself in the care of Dr Asperger by Christopher Shrimpton
  • Original poems:  Narrative Fragment by Lucy Silbaugh
  • Autobiography, Book Review:  Love addict:  Elizabeth Gilbert's emotional recovery programme by Frances Wilson
  • Social & cultural studies, Book Review:  Craftwork:  Britain's lost arts and vanishing folk traditions by Susan Owens
  • Environment, Book Review:  Taken at the flood:  An alternative to the currrent system of failing water companies by Tony Juniper
  • Environment, Book Review:  Filleted accounts:  The devastation caused by deep-sea commercial fishing by Isaac Nowell
  • Travel, Book Review:  Night moves:  Train travel in the dark and trips ot the British seaside by Alev Adil
  • Travel, Book Review:  Gone to look for America:  A meditation on a continent from a Greyhound bus by Tom Lathan
  • Travel, Essay:  A place of ice and awe by Abigail Parry
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Abandoned dreams:  A family's traditions and transitions in early twentieth-century Poland by Juliette Bretan
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:   Age-inappropriate:  Alternating perspectives on a secret relationship by Kathryn Murphy
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Royal milestones:  The essentials of the late Queen's life by David Gelber
  • 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!