My Book of the Year goes to Richard Powers’s Playground. I am still reeling from this novel. Give yourself over to it completely – the reward is immense. Top notch.
Caroline Bird’s new collection reigns top of my poetry reads, very closely followed by CAConrad. Flanagan’s Question 7 stands as my non-fiction pick. And other front-runners in fiction include: If Only by Vigdis Hjorth (tr. Charlotte Barslund) and Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin.
From the publisher:
The latest novel from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZETHE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE…
From the publisher:
Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which a recurring dream is playing out: a…
From the publisher:
**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**From one kiss comes a chain reaction – a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize‘Extraordinary’ Sarah Perry‘Masterpiece’…
Recommended by Liv
’I think that Vigdis Hjorth is one of the very best contemporary novelists. I would strongly advise picking up any of her books – although If Only is a good place to start. Only Hjorth could write about such a torrid and ruinous love affair and have me quite so invested.’
From the publisher:
The new collection from 'one of America's most legendary living poets' (Ocean Vuong), written in the drive to fall in love with the world again not as it was, but as it iswhen the hammerapproached we thoughtis that thing coming this…
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The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse‘Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel…elegant, original and often very funny’ Kevin Barry, New…
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