Incredibly excited to start the year with a new Shaun Tan – I have loved his work since I encountered The Arrival in 2014. I am reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich at the moment, which is an absolute joy – full of descriptions of an indie bookshop and the travails of its booksellers as the ghost of a customer keeps visiting the bookshop. As a huge fan of Toni Morrison, I am looking forward to Recitatif, a short novel that has been described as “a masterful exploration of what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, of race and the relationships that shape our lives.” Together with these three titles are some other books I will be buying to keep me reading while I wait for Spring.
From the publisher:
A stunningly presented paperback edition of the 2020 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal winner. Twenty-five illustrated short stories exploring the relationship between humans and animals, from award-winning visual storyteller Shaun Tan.Where can…
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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMANIn this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage…
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'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine EvaristoTwyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch…
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Translated by Mara Faye LethemWhen Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of…
From the publisher:
A nuanced look at Maya mythology, from the literary record of the Popol Vuh to a broad range of artistic depictions by ancient Maya artists.
From the publisher:
I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.'In 1986 artist and…
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