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All rights reserved. said, “It’s an honor to be on this list and also see Dr. D Satish from ICFAI breaking into the list! Vote up the best suspense authors. Well, quite a lot when said woman turns out to have a past she’s running from. For me, Michael Bird’s Artists’ Letters (White Lion Publishing, £20) has proved ideal dipping. Add this to the list of 50 books you need to read by 50. This content is currently not available in your region. Here are three recent books that, once opened, I couldn’t put down.

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell. Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Chatto & Windus, £20) provided the perfect escapist pleasure, cleverly knitting together strands from both her novel The Handmaid’s Tale and its television adaptation. I very much admired Yiyun Li’s Where Reasons End (Hamish Hamilton, £12.99), a highly unusual novel in which a writer confronts one of life’s deepest sorrows in losing her child. Author and activist Margaret Atwood wins this year’s Best Fiction award for her long-anticipated sequel to the dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale.The book picks up the story 15 years after handmaid Offred’s ambiguous fate in the theocratic nation of Gilead … Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize for Maoism: A Global History. To keep up with the books our editors are reading daily, join Reader’s Digest Select Editions group on Facebook. Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Wildfire, £18.99) was a minute, unsparing examination of the breakdown of a marriage. Finally, Lemn Sissay’s memoir, My Name Is Why (Canongate, £16.99), which I read in one compulsive sitting: a book that reminds me, as it should remind us all, that the state of childhood is a state of profound vulnerability. It isn’t.

It is an ambitious and daring novel from a promising writer. First Magazine on Covid-19 Pandemic – Coming Soon! This story of blended families and a house where books come to life would make a perfect Christmas present for any bookish nine- to 12-year-old. Kingsnorth charts the breakdown of his faith in words, in nature as an uncomplicated restorative, in the idea of “progress”, while fearlessly tracking his conclusions to their very ends.

[1] The result is a good read to cozy up to this winter. Rapunzel’s witch; Blodeuwedd, who was shaped from flowers; and Romeo’s Rosaline, among many others – English literature forgot them, closed the door and turned away. I came across the essay collection Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson (Picador, £16.99) in the bookshop of the British Library: I’d put aside the day for my own work and ended up standing by the display table, getting in everyone’s way, turning page after page, quite unable to tear myself away.

Note: Prices listed were accurate as of press time; pricing fluctuations may occur. As for my third choice, am I allowed to choose a book I guest edited this year? Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize for The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922-1968. Any war, even one known as “the last gentlemen’s war”, is marked by unchecked brutality and Barr never lets us lose sight of the toll of the inhumanity inflicted on the Boers and that they inflict on the indigenous people of South Africa. This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 2019, in the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction category. I spent 20 minutes reading the cover of Rusty Brown (Cape, £25). We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. Bernhard’s influence is pervasive and his style riskily contagious. Once it starts, the action doesn’t stop.

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