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:
A new novel from the Booker-shortlisted authorA POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here…
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…
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**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’…
From the publisher:
Translated by Charlotte BarslundA groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis HjorthA relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children.…
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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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