Here are the latest newsletters for my followers to peruse:
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Featuring new book reviews for Sonia Shah's The Next
Great Migration, Andres Neuman's Fracture and Viv Groskop's Au
Revoir, Tristesse
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The
Week in Review 22nd June 2020
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Book reviews for Shah's The Next Great Migration dub
the book as "life-affirming" and "fundamental"
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Good morning Karen,
Sonia Shah's The
Next Great Migration moved into the spotlight this weekend.
In the Scotsman, Joyce McMillan had high praise for Shah's
arguments on human migration: "a hugely entertaining,
life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious adaptability of
life on earth." In the Observer, Tim Adams dubbed the
study "fascinating" as it "debunks false narratives
about immigration and finds that, in common with other species, the
urge to move is written in our genes." In the New York
Times, Richard O Prum raved about the importance of Shah's work
which "addresses issues of fundamental importance to the survival
and well-being of us all."
Andres Neuman's Fracture
broke onto the scene this weekend, with reviewers dubbing it as
"ambitious", "astonishingly relevant" and
"strangely tender". In the Sunday Times, David
Mills said: "This is an ambitious, serious novel" which
is often "golden". In the Observer, Lucy Popescu
felt themes were resontant of today's coronavirus pandemic:
"Perceptively translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, Fracture
is a novel for our times and astonishingly relevant. Radiation,
like coronavirus, is an invisible killer." Whilst in the
Financial Times, David Pilling felt that "in this
enjoyable and strangely tender book, Neuman asks us to look beyond
the present."
Book reviews for Viv Groskop's Au
Revoir, Tristesse were the picture of happiness
this week. An editor's choice for The Bookseller's
Caroline Sanderson, who praised Groskop's exploration of French
literature as she "constructs a convincing case for the
joy and elan to be found in such works". The Irish
Times gave the book a near perfect review, as Sara Keating
said: "Groskop sheds light on how personal readings of books can
shift with time." Over in the Times, Rachel
Campbell-Johnston commented "This book offers the simple
happiness of knowing that there are loads of amazing French novels
out there still waiting to be read — or re-read."
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By Tamsin Hackett, Books Co-ordinator, The
Bookseller
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The Next Great
Migration
Sonia Shah
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"This fascinating study debunks false
narratives about immigration "
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"her work addresses issues of fundamental
importance to the survival and well-being of us all"
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"Sonia Shah’s life- affirming celebration of
migration is an antidote to the naysayers"
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The See-Through House
Shelley Klein
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"...I adored this beguiling illustrated
memoir"
The Bookseller
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The COVID-19 Catastrophe
Richard Horton
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"...He is scathing about what he portrays as
the wilful disregard by politicians of pandemic alarms that
stretched back many years."
The Sunday Times
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His Imperial Majesty
Matthew Oates
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"...This regal butterfly has a short lifespan
but is ‘a mighty metaphor for our relationship with beauty, and
with nature’"
The Guardian
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The Garden of Monsters
Lorenza Foschini
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"...(a) vivacious coming-of-age novel"
Financial Times
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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"...It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin
America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously
weird"
The Guardian
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How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley
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"...Ridley's new book argues that ‘secret
sauce’ of innovation is freedom – the space to experiment and even
fail"
The Sunday Telegraph
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The Pink Line
Mark Gevisser
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"...The compassion for the people Gevisser
encounters sings through the pages and the reader is richer for
being introduced to every single one of them."
The Observer
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Valentine
Elizabeth Wetmore
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"...great skill and sensitivity"
Woman & Home
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The Weekend
Charlotte Wood
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"...An insightful novel"
Woman & Home
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Wild Child
Patrick Barkham (Y)
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"...Patrick Barkham’s memoir about trying to
raise his children in harmony with nature is thoughtful and
poignant"
The Observer
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Niki Lauda
Maurice Hamilton
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"...there is more than enough to savour in
Lauda’s singular character, especially his amusing bluntness"
The Times
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Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
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"...a bracing, refreshing first novel, with
hints of greater things to come."
The Observer
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Best
Books of the Year - So Far...
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The Times & The Sunday Times Best Books
of the Year 2020
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As 2020 reaches its half time point, the literary
teams of the Times and the Sunday Times pick their
best books of the year so far...
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This is What America Looks Like
Ilhan Omar, Rebecca Paley
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"...If you’re looking for the perfect antidote
to the perpetual tweetstorm of insanity and hatred from Donald
Trump, try this beautiful new book"
The Guardian
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Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
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"...Reading this marvellous diary leaves me
with the impression that whatever the future holds, with young
people like McAnulty coming to the fore it will be in safer
hands"
Irish Times
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
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"...Dramatically exposes the emotional stakes
of identity"
Vanity Fair
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Remain Silent
Susie Steiner
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"...As taut, classy and intelligent as
Steiner’s previous novels"
The Guardian
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"...in this enjoyable and strangely tender
book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present"
Financial Times
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Wretchedness
Andrzej Tichy, Nichola Smalley
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"...This is nightmarish, impressionistic
literature"
Irish Times
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Au Revoir, Tristesse
Viv Groskop
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"...From Bonjour Tristesse by Franoise Sagan to
L'etranger by Albert Camus, she constructs a convincing case for
the joy and elan to be found in such works"
The Bookseller
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Miss Aluminium
Susanna Moore
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"...The descriptive writing is a joy"
The Sunday Times
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"...'a stunning achievement'"
The Bookseller
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The Motion of the Body Through Space
Lionel Shriver
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"...a pinpoint-sharp novel"
Woman & Home
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"...this sumptuously dark novel has spiritual
weight"
The Sunday Telegraph
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"...it’d be no surprise if it proved to be the
Sapiens of 2020"
The Guardian
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
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"...Dramatically exposes the emotional stakes
of identity"
Vanity Fair
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Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
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"...a bracing, refreshing first novel, with
hints of greater things to come."
The Observer
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A. N. Wilson (Author)
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"...Wilson’s book is a brilliant denunciation
of the sickness of Victorian England"
The Times
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins
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"...A Hunger Games without Everdeen
might have seemed as peculiar as a Potter without Harry, but it
works beautifully"
The Times
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Online
Book Events from BookGig
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My Story: Yvonne
Battle-Felton
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Tuesday 23rd
June, 2020 @ 6pm
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Caroline Sanderson
talks to Adam Kay
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Wednesday 24th
June, 2020 @ 4pm
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Meet the Author:
James Naughtie
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Wednesday 24th
June, 2020 @ 8pm
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Alice O'Keeffe
talks to Oyinkan Braithwaite
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Thursday 24th
June, 2020 @ 4pm
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Featuring new book reviews for Niamh Campbell's This
Happy, Joanna Briscoe's The Seduction and Reni Eddo-Lodge's
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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The
Week in Review 19th June 2020
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Book Reviews for Niamh Campbell's This
Happy deem the book 'vibrant', 'sensual' and 'exhilarating'
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Good morning Karen,
Niamh Campbell's This
Happy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) put a smile
reviewer's faces this weekend. In the Sunday Times, Lucy
Knight called the book "an exhilarating coming-of-age story
for fans of Sally Rooney", adding that the retrospective
narration makes Alannah a "fuller, more satisfying character
than others of this ilk." In the Irish
Times, Sarah Gilmartin praised the author's
"layered and vibrant debut", saying it is full of
"sensual, offbeat descriptions". Over in the Sunday
Telegraph, Cal Revely-Calder said that This Happy's
"opulent unhappiness is something to enjoy" as it is
"a novel of psychological texture."
Joanna Briscoe's The
Seduction (Bloomsbury) certainly enticed
reviewers this weekend. In the Spectator, Francesca Steele
noted that "the beautifully observed familial pains are
universal." Anthony Cummins called the novel a
"page-turning psycho sexual romp" in the Daily
Mail. Whilst in the Guardian, Lara Feigel praised the
tone of the novel: "through this addictive, macabre
fairground ride of a novel, Briscoe reminds us to value the quieter
forms of love."
Book reviews for Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why
I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
(Bloomsbury, 2017) have made a resurgence in the media this week as
the title is part of many anti-racist
reading lists. In the Daily Express, Jenny Desborough
said the book is "an important read to understand race
relations in our culture." In Prima, Arielle Tchiprout
added that Eddo-Lodge's book is "an important educational tool
for white allies." Whilst in Vogue, Hayley Maitland
mirrored these sentiments saying that the book successfully picks
apart the "insidious nature of white privilege in minute
detail – and mapping the ramifications of racial bias in the
UK."
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By Tamsin Hackett, Books Co-ordinator, The
Bookseller
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This Happy
Niamh Campbell
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"an exhilarating coming-of-age story for fans
of Sally Rooney"
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"This Happy isn’t upbeat, but its opulent
unhappiness is something to enjoy"
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"An affair continues to haunt in Niamh
Campbell’s intricate, deftly written debut"
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The Room Where it Happened
John Bolton
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"...a lavishly bewhiskered figure whose
wonkishness and warmongering can make him seem like an unlikely
hybrid of Ned Flanders and Yosemite Sam"
The New York Times
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All Our Broken Idols
Paul M.M. Cooper
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"...Cooper offers no trite conclusions, just a
welcome thoughtfulness at a time of so much noise and fury over
statues"
The Times
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The Golden Rule
Amanda Craig
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"... the ambitious scope of The Golden Rule is
buttressed by an old-fashioned faith in the educative function of
literature itself"
The Guardian
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
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"...Dramatically exposes the emotional stakes
of identity"
Vanity Fair
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Bread Winner
Emma Griffin
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"...an enthralling read and fluently
written"
The Daily Telegraph
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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
Jonathan Bate
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"...Jonathan Bate’s crisp biography sheds light
on the poet’s inspiration — and long decline"
Financial Times
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"...there just isn’t room here to begin to lay
out the complexities of these diverse scientific disciplines"
The Guardian
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This Happy
Niamh Campbell
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"...an exhilarating coming-of-age story for
fans of Sally Rooney"
The Sunday Times
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Au Revoir, Tristesse
Viv Groskop
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"...From Bonjour Tristesse by Franoise Sagan to
L'etranger by Albert Camus, she constructs a convincing case for
the joy and elan to be found in such works"
The Bookseller
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Sons of the Waves
Stephen Taylor
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"...he stitches together the brutality and
wonder of their lives with intelligence, judgement and
compassion"
Literary Review
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Mussolini's War
John Gooch
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"...It is hard to imagine a finer account, both
of the sweep of Italy’s wars, and of the characters caught up in
them"
The Guardian
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"...in this enjoyable and strangely tender
book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present"
Financial Times
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Non-Fiction
Book of the Month
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Diary of a Young
Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
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Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning
of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a
year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons
writing. Diagnosed with autism at age five these vivid diary
entries portray his perspective as a teenager juggling exams and
friendship alongside a campaigning life.
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This is What America Looks Like
Ilhan Omar, Rebecca Paley
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"...If you’re looking for the perfect antidote
to the perpetual tweetstorm of insanity and hatred from Donald
Trump, try this beautiful new book"
The Guardian
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Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
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"...Reading this marvellous diary leaves me
with the impression that whatever the future holds, with young
people like McAnulty coming to the fore it will be in safer
hands"
Irish Times
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Remain Silent
Susie Steiner
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"...As taut, classy and intelligent as
Steiner’s previous novels"
The Guardian
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
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"...Dramatically exposes the emotional stakes
of identity"
Vanity Fair
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"...in this enjoyable and strangely tender
book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present"
Financial Times
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Miss Aluminium
Susanna Moore
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"...The descriptive writing is a joy"
The Sunday Times
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Wretchedness
Andrzej Tichy, Nichola Smalley
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"...This is nightmarish, impressionistic
literature"
Irish Times
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A. N. Wilson (Author)
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"...Wilson focuses on the contradictory nature
of Dickens’s character"
Irish Times
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The Motion of the Body Through Space
Lionel Shriver
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"...Few novelists now raise a laugh. Shriver
does so time and again."
The Scotsman
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"...An entertaining novel that reimagines the
life of Hillary Rodham, without marriage to Bill Clinton"
Financial Times
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"...this sumptuously dark novel has spiritual
weight"
The Sunday Telegraph
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"...it’d be no surprise if it proved to be the
Sapiens of 2020"
The Guardian
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Clothes...and Other Things That Matter
Alexandra Shulman
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"...as this hugely engaging memoir shows us,
the slight lack of polish was always part of her appeal"
The Spectator
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A. N. Wilson (Author)
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"...Wilson focuses on the contradictory nature
of Dickens’s character"
Irish Times
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Putin's People
Catherine Belton
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"...A groundbreaking and meticulously
researched anatomy of the Putin regime, Belton’s book shines a
light on the pernicious threats Russian money and influence now
pose to the west"
The Guardian
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins
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"...A Hunger Games without Everdeen
might have seemed as peculiar as a Potter without Harry, but it
works beautifully"
The Times
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Online
Book Events from BookGig
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Peter J. Verovšek:
Memory and the future of Europe
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Monday 22nd June,
2020 @ 2:00 pm
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Katharine Dommett:
The Reimagined Party
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Wednesday 24th
June, 2020 @ 2:00 pm
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Author Talk: The
Joy of Search by Daniel M. Russell
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Tuesday 23rd
June, 2020 @ 5:30 pm
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Caroline Sanderson
talks to Adam Kay
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Wednesday 24th
June, 2020 @ 4:00 pm
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© 2020 Bookseller Media Ltd.
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Featuring new book reviews for Niamh Campbell's This
Happy, Joanna Briscoe's The Seduction and Reni Eddo-Lodge's
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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The
Week in Review 15th June 2020
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Book Reviews for Niamh Campbell's This
Happy deem the book 'vibrant', 'sensual' and 'exhilarating'
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Good morning Karen,
Niamh Campbell's This
Happy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) put a smile
reviewer's faces this weekend. In the Sunday Times, Lucy
Knight called the book "an exhilarating coming-of-age story
for fans of Sally Rooney", adding that the retrospective
narration makes Alannah a "fuller, more satisfying character
than others of this ilk." In the Irish
Times, Sarah Gilmartin praised the author's
"layered and vibrant debut", saying it is full of
"sensual, offbeat descriptions". Over in the Sunday
Telegraph, Cal Revely-Calder said that This Happy's
"opulent unhappiness is something to enjoy" as it is
"a novel of psychological texture."
Joanna Briscoe's The
Seduction (Bloomsbury) certainly enticed
reviewers this weekend. In the Spectator, Francesca Steele
noted that "the beautifully observed familial pains are
universal." Anthony Cummins called the novel a
"page-turning psycho sexual romp" in the Daily
Mail. Whilst in the Guardian, Lara Feigel praised the
tone of the novel: "through this addictive, macabre
fairground ride of a novel, Briscoe reminds us to value the quieter
forms of love."
Book reviews for Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why
I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
(Bloomsbury, 2017) have made a resurgence in the media this week as
the title is part of many anti-racist
reading lists. In the Daily Express, Jenny Desborough
said the book is "an important read to understand race
relations in our culture." In Prima, Arielle Tchiprout
added that Eddo-Lodge's book is "an important educational tool
for white allies." Whilst in Vogue, Hayley Maitland
mirrored these sentiments saying that the book successfully picks
apart the "insidious nature of white privilege in minute
detail – and mapping the ramifications of racial bias in the
UK."
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By Tamsin Hackett, Books Co-ordinator, The
Bookseller
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This Happy
Niamh Campbell
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"an exhilarating coming-of-age story for fans
of Sally Rooney"
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"This Happy isn’t upbeat, but its opulent
unhappiness is something to enjoy"
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"An affair continues to haunt in Niamh
Campbell’s intricate, deftly written debut"
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Angrynomics
Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth (Brown University)
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"...Angrynomics ... could just as well have
been written yesterday."
Financial Times
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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
Jonathan Bate
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"...Jonathan Bate’s crisp biography sheds light
on the poet’s inspiration — and long decline"
Financial Times
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Mrs Escobar
Victoria Eugenia Henao, Andrea Rosenberg
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"...Pablo Escobar’s widow unfolds a grim tale
of infidelity, abuse and humiliation"
The Sunday Times
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Extraterrestrial Languages
Daniel Oberhaus
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"...shows how many areas of thought the
seemingly simple question ‘how do we communicate with aliens?’
touches on"
The Spectator
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Learning from the Germans
Susan Neiman
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"...What the US could learn from Germany about
coming to terms with its past"
The Sunday Times
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A People's History of Tennis
David Berry
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"...A People’s History of Tennis mounts a
spirited, affectionate defence of club tennis"
Literary Review
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"...there just isn’t room here to begin to lay
out the complexities of these diverse scientific disciplines"
The Guardian
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This Happy
Niamh Campbell
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"...an exhilarating coming-of-age story for
fans of Sally Rooney"
The Sunday Times
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Bread Winner
Emma Griffin
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"...an enthralling read and fluently
written"
The Daily Telegraph
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Sons of the Waves
Stephen Taylor
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"...he stitches together the brutality and
wonder of their lives with intelligence, judgement and
compassion"
Literary Review
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Mussolini's War
John Gooch
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"...It is hard to imagine a finer account, both
of the sweep of Italy’s wars, and of the characters caught up in
them"
The Guardian
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"...in this enjoyable and strangely tender
book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present"
Financial Times
|
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|
Non-Fiction
Book of the Month
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|
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Diary of a Young
Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
|
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning
of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a
year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons
writing. Diagnosed with autism at age five these vivid diary
entries portray his perspective as a teenager juggling exams and
friendship alongside a campaigning life.
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|
|
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This is What America Looks Like
Ilhan Omar, Rebecca Paley
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"...If you’re looking for the perfect antidote
to the perpetual tweetstorm of insanity and hatred from Donald
Trump, try this beautiful new book"
The Guardian
|
|
|
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
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"...Reading this marvellous diary leaves me
with the impression that whatever the future holds, with young
people like McAnulty coming to the fore it will be in safer
hands"
Irish Times
|
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|
Remain Silent
Susie Steiner
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"...As taut, classy and intelligent as
Steiner’s previous novels"
The Guardian
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|
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
|
"...Dramatically exposes the emotional stakes
of identity"
Vanity Fair
|
|
|
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"...in this enjoyable and strangely tender
book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present"
Financial Times
|
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This Happy
Niamh Campbell
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"...an exhilarating coming-of-age story for
fans of Sally Rooney"
The Sunday Times
|
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|
Wretchedness
Andrzej Tichy, Nichola Smalley
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"...This is nightmarish, impressionistic
literature"
Irish Times
|
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|
Miss Aluminium
Susanna Moore
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"...The descriptive writing is a joy"
The Sunday Times
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|
|
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The Motion of the Body Through Space
Lionel Shriver
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"...a pinpoint-sharp novel"
Woman & Home
|
|
|
"...'a stunning achievement'"
The Bookseller
|
|
|
"...this sumptuously dark novel has spiritual
weight"
The Sunday Telegraph
|
|
|
"...it’d be no surprise if it proved to be the
Sapiens of 2020"
The Guardian
|
|
|
|
Clothes...and Other Things That Matter
Alexandra Shulman
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"...as this hugely engaging memoir shows us,
the slight lack of polish was always part of her appeal"
The Spectator
|
|
|
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A. N. Wilson (Author)
|
"...Wilson’s book is a brilliant denunciation
of the sickness of Victorian England"
The Times
|
|
|
Putin's People
Catherine Belton
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"...the book that reveals the truth about
Russia"
The Daily Telegraph
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|
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins
|
"...A Hunger Games without Everdeen
might have seemed as peculiar as a Potter without Harry, but it
works beautifully"
The Times
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|
Online
Book Events from BookGig
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Fiona Noble talks
to Nathan Bryon & Dapo Adeola
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Monday 15th June,
2020 @ 4pm
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At Home With Onjali
Q Rauf
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Tuesday 16th
June, 2020 @ 2pm
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Little Door Books
Storytime
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Wednesday 17th
June, 2020 @ 10am
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Alice O'Keeffe
talks to Jojo Moyes
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Thursday 18th
June, 2020 @ 4pm
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