Looking back over this reading year I see how spoilt I have been: so many of my favourite writers have published this year, and I have found a new favourite in Solvej Balle and her extraordinary time loop novels; the Fitzcarraldo poetry list continues to thrill (as it will next year too – I’ve seen what’s coming); and the Moomins strips are collected in these really lovely volumes (great for the bedside stack).
Art and writing collide and collude in my list as usual and therefore my highlight has to be Painting Writing Texting, a chronicle of art and life and the friendship between painter Chantal Joffe and writer Olivia Laing. (Signed copies are on the way.)
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Painting Writing Texting chronicles the friendship between painter Chantal Joffe and writer Olivia Laing, which began in 2016 when Joffe approached Laing to ask if they would sit for a portrait. From this unexpected encounter, the two…
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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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The classic comic strip by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson in a new paperback seriesPresented in an all new softcover format that collects the all ages comics of both Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, the five-volume Moomin…
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The classic comic strip by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson in a new paperback seriesWhen D&Q debuted the Moomin comics in 2007, it was the first time that the strip had been published in English since its original appearance in the London…
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“Then the voice from nowhere carried on talking about Munch, like my mother of all people knew about Munch, like she knew I was looking at a picture right now, like she knew about the power crisis and the international unrest and the…
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Translated by Jennifer RussellThe third volume in Solvej Balle’s landmark European masterpiece about a woman lost in time.Tara Selter is no longer alone.Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a…
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The Good Story may be every story you write, but the Good Story is also not your story. Dog Days considers why we tell stories the way we do, and how we might tell them otherwise. Combining memoir and essay, cultural criticism and…
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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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“Underneath the sharp satire and hilarious sexual irreverence this is a deadly serious book: a brilliant novel of a seeker, like The Pilgrim’s Progress refracted by queer internet culture.” Torrey PetersDarryl…
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‘It is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night.’It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is…
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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those…
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