Do you have a ‘to read’ pile? I have three … novels, art-related and other non-fiction. Sigh…!
Every time Elizabeth Strout publishes a new book, I rush to read it. Her characters are everyday, often funny, you can imagine them perfectly, while Strout’s depiction of interior lives is astute.
The Things We Never Say
I’m intrigued by the summary (plus any cover that features a Caravaggio painting is going to reel me in).
The Vivisectors
I’ve just finished this and wanted to go right back to the start again. Shafak is one of the most moving writers of today, her prose is as satisfying and beautiful as an intricately woven blanket of characters and events. Weaving across time periods...
There are Rivers in the Sky
Next on my list as I work through Shafak’s early books!
Forty Rules of Love
Another Shafak book I’ve read, absorbing characters and narrative set on Cyprus providing the backdrop of the tense histories between Turkey and Greece. A must-read.
The Island of Missing Trees
The only writer who makes me guffaw with laughter and want to sob at the same time. Sedaris has a unique voice like no other.
The Land and its People
Keep seeing this and not yet started it. Would love to know what other people think?
Craftland
If you were a Haircut 100 fan in 1980s London, you will be, like me rushing out to read this! I met Nick occasionally aroubd London so can’t wait to relive those days in his autobiography.
Fantastic Days
EVERYONE seems to be reading this.. so I guess I will fall under its spell soon too. Dunham is witty and acerbic so no doubt this is par for the course!
Famesick
Can’t wait to read this!
All the Beauty in the World
Britain’s greatest living poet! Punk poet since the 1970s/80s, Cooper Clarke writes like no other. This account of his childhood in Manchester and later years elsewhere is brilliant and insightful.
I Wanna Be Yours
Another music bio of a 1980s stellar band!
Truly Gifted Kids
Love, love, loved this book. Ingenious weaving of five women’s lives around the same square in London, spanning the early to mid 20th century. Wonderful insight into these singular lives.
