My pick of summer reads includes:
Miranda July’s All Fours: every single bit as good as people say, believe the hype!
Patricia Lockwood’s Will There Ever Be Another You: Will there ever be another novel like this dream-like, funny and wildly imaginative work?
Sasha Debevec-McKenney’s Joy is My Middle Name: Funny and brutally honest, has you rolling in the aisles then sucker punches you with the emotional truth.
Catherine Lacey’s The Mobius Book: A multi-sided look at the end of a relationship and a fascinating exercise in form, Catherine Lacey just gets better and better with every book.
Agota Kristof’s I Don’t Care: Odd, brutal and darkly funny short stories from the Hungarian short story master.
From the publisher:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKA BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIANA 2024 BOOK OF THE…
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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS - WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe world might be in disarray, but…
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Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems…
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A genre-bending story about breaking - both of the heart and literary form itself - from the critically-acclaimed author of Biography of X.The sudden, devastating breakup of a relationship in the winter of 2021 left Catherine Lacey…
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Translated by Chris AndrewsNever before translated short stories by the legendary Ágota Kristóf'One of the 20th century's greatest writers' Camilla Grudova'Pure genius' Max PorterI don’t care: it’s not even…
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