Gayle’s Summer Picks 2023
Selected by the Bookshop
This summer I’ll mostly be reading strange and compelling historical fiction: Granta BYBN Lauren Aimee Curtis’s Strangers at the Port, A.K. Blakemore’s fantastically horrible The Glutton, Lauren Groff’s bleak and beautiful The Vaster Wilds, Adam Thirlwell’s The Future Future and Zadie Smith’s The Fraud.
Plus: the latest from the always brilliant Isabel Waidner; Pip Adam’s Audition; Thomas Morris’s latest collection of short stories; and Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché’s collaborative sci-fi Prophet.
From the publisher:
Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient’s room. She has heard the stories of his hunger, which defy belief: that he has eaten all manner of creatures and objects. A…
From the publisher:
‘It would be better if we took a moment to be really grateful for this beautiful spacecraft which used to be so perfect for us. Which was built especially for us. When we got too big for Earth.’The…
From the publisher:
The new collection from a literary star – five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.Everything felt familiar and nostalgic. It was the joy and blood-thrill of being understood, of being ready to give…
From the publisher:
Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left.Her best friend, beside her older sister, Giovanna, is a donkey. She ties ribbons around his head and thinks she will marry him when the time…
From the publisher:
The radical, joyful follow-up to the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Sterling Karat Gold.This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong - and with it…
From the publisher:
A profound and explosive novel about a spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to surviveA servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot…
From the publisher:
'Fabulous . . . Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMANYOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and…
From the publisher:
It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble'Unlike anything else you'll read this (or any other) year'SALMAN RUSHDIE, Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight's Children'A radically beautiful new novel'SHEILA HETI, author…
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Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of…
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