Leading authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Armistead Maupin and Alice Roberts recommend books to read this summer
about growing up with a Rastafarian father in Jamaica who imposed his tyrannical will on his children, especially his daughters, to such an extent that it was suffocating and psychologically damaging. Eventually Sinclair escapes his grip and finds freedom and self-determination in the US, where she becomes a writer, initially a poet. Shockingly honest and brave, but also beautifully immersive and ultimately uplifting, this is a stunning book.
, is set during the Irish famine and you can taste the bitterness as both food and relationships are blighted. It’s written in free verse poems that catch your heart. Manchán Magan’s Thirty-Two Words for Field dives back into the origins of the Irish language through the prism of Magan’s own life. One moment we are in Dublin, and the next on the west coast with figures from the great Irish legends appearing out of the sea. The two books illuminated each other for me.
: an investigation of politics, the internet, misinformation. She’s a writer I admire hugely, for her rigorous intelligence, her spike-sharp humour, and her clarity of moral purpose.by Sophie Elmhirst is the true story of a couple who escape miserable 1970s Britain by building a boat and setting sail, only to be shipwrecked by a whale and cast adrift for 118 days on the Pacific Ocean.
Two novels I have been utterly captivated by this year and would pack into anyone’s suitcase, with or without permission:by Alice McDermott, about a young American woman who has just married to her diplomat husband when he is posted to wartime Saigon –by Niall Williams, which is set in Ireland in the 1950s. “A tiny village is about to get electricity” would be a summary of the plot. “, relationships, grief death, family, romantic love” is what it contains.
quickly reveals its teeth to ask uncomfortable questions about history, memory, race, community and who gets to be called Australian.by the Colombo-based Vajra Chandrasekera. A picaresque fantasy novel about an assassin dispatched to kill his own father, it’s filled with invention and ideas. It’s inspiring to see Sri Lankan writers punching above their weight and collecting trophies. Let’s hope the cricket team can start doing the same.
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