Wordsworth classics5/4/2023 In A Strange and Sublime Address, we witness the gentle rhythms of a large family and their entourage as experienced through ten-year-old Sandeep, who spends his summers at his uncle’s home in Calcutta. I’ve been immersed in the enchanting world of Amit Chaudhuri, thanks to three new editions. The premise of her new novel – about a TV comedy writer who thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions – sounds positively delicious.Ī Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, Odysseus Abroad I’ve adored, and admired, Sittenfeld’s writing ever since her debut Prep was published in 2005. Out in April, I’m recommending this feel-good love story to anyone needing a romantic pick-me-up.Ĭlearly I’m in the mood for love (stories) at the moment, because the book I’m most looking forward to reading next is Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld. Suffice to say this is the perfect set-up for tension to build, and build, between the exes, keeping the reader hooked right to the very end. The plot revolves around recently broken-up Harry and Wyn, who agree to pretend that they are still a couple for one last holiday with their oldest, closest friends. ![]() I’m a longtime Emily Henry stan – her romances are reliably enjoyable and page-turning will-they-won’t-they affairs – so I was thrilled to get an early reading copy of her new novel, Happy Place. I can’t wait to sample these strange and wonderful delights. The foreword by Patricia Lockwood is one of the best intros of all time – she really gets Ingalls and it’s an absolute joy to see. If you loved Mrs Caliban as much as me (and a LOT of people did), you’ll be equally excited for this collection of Rachel Ingalls’s novellas. It is just incredible and hugely impactful for such a wonderfully short book. Until ‘survivors’ start arriving at the hotel and the guests have to decide whether to help or turn them away. The latest addition to our stellar Faber Editions series, Termush was originally published by Faber in 1967 and has aged almost scarily well! It’s a novella set in a luxury hotel where wealthy guests have paid to weather a nuclear apocalypse, safe from the outside world. Sven Holm (translated by Sylvia Clayton) (Faber) ![]() ![]() Rachel Darling, Trade Marketing and Project Manager I loved the warmth, sensitivity and depth of character in Washington’s previous writing, and Family Meal promises to serve up more of the same. The gorgeous writing, punctuated by the narrator’s very funny insights into prosaic activities, like growing vegetables, folding laundry and making breakfast, reads like being taken into confidence by your cleverest and most unexpectedly witty friend.Īs a Bryan Washington mega-fan, I’m excited to read his upcoming novel Family Meal it’s centred around two queer men and childhood friends, Cam and TJ, who re-unite years later at TJ’s family’s Korean bakery in Houston. This dreamlike montage of stories, all seemingly narrated by the same unnamed woman who leads a life of quiet solitude in an Irish countryside cottage, is a lovely read for spring – it immediately made me want to go outside and lounge under an apple tree, or plunge my hands into some soil.
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