What we're reading
What we're reading: Maggie O'Farrell, William Boyd & Clémentine Beauvais
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bronte Coates has two books on the go
This past week I’ve been snatching moments to listen to the audiobook of André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name – the story of a passionate romance between 17-year-old Elio and his father’s house guest, Oliver, during a restless summer on the Italian Riviera. This 2007 novel…
What we're reading: James S.A. Corey, Sally Rooney & Daniel Mendelsohn
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Ann Le Lievre is reading An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
This is my most favourite non-fiction book for 2017.
Daniel Mendelsohn is an undergraduate classics professor at Bard College in New York. One day his father, who is 81-years-old, rings to say he wants to ‘sit in’ on…
What we're reading: Louise Erdrich, Andrew Michael Hurley & Sally Rooney
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Ellen Cregan is reading Louise Erdrich and Alissa Nutting
I’ve just finished reading two excellent books.
The first is Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. Initially, I’d planned on reading a couple of chapters, but ended up finishing the whole thing in one sitting. If you liked The Handmaid’s Tale, you…
What we're reading: Margareta Magnusson, Nidhi Chanani & Kazuo Ishiguro
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Kim Gruschow is reading two terrific middle fiction books
This past week I read Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani, a really sweet and touching graphic novel about family and choices. There’s lots of beautiful colour and magic as Pri, an artistic Indain-American teen, discovers the homeland her mother fled.
I also just finished The Guggenheim Mystery…
What we're reading: Rainbow Rowell, Tracy Sorensen & Tony Birch
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Stella Charls is recommending Tony Birch
On Wednesday night I went along to the Wheeler Centre to see Tony Birch in conversation with Chris Flynn about his most recent short story collection, Common People. This event also included an exciting announcement – Tony has been named the winner of the $20,000 Patrick White Literary…
What we're reading: Katherine Heiny, Carmen Maria Machado & Tony Tan
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bel Monypenny is reading Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny
Katherine Heiny’s first book Single, Carefree, Mellow is the most hilarious read I’ve had in a long time. This collection of short stories examines the complexities of love, betrayal and loss through the mundane absurdities of modern life: the logistics of an affair, the death…
What we're reading: Alice Munro, Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Bel Monypenny is reading Alice Munro for the first time
I’m finally delving into the work of Alice Munro, the Canadian Nobel laureate and master of the short story. I’m starting with Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage and it’s certainly been worth the wait. The meaty stories in this collection have all left me with…
What we're reading: Amy Reed, Kayla Rae Whitaker & Sue Perkins
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Stella Charls is recommending The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker has stayed with me since I first read it nine months ago. At this point I can safely say it’s my international fiction pick of the year. It’s funny, deeply moving and fiercely empathetic. It made me realise how…
What we're reading: Robert Galbraith, Rochelle Siemienowicz & Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Ellen Cregan is reading Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
For the past few weeks I’ve been on a literary bent with my reading, which has been slightly mentally exhausting. For this reason, I picked up a copy of the third installment of the Cormoran Strike novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pen name…
What we're reading: Jennifer Mathieu, Deborah Rodriguez & Jesmyn Ward
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Ellen Cregan is reading Sally Rooney and Jesmyn Ward
I’ve just returned from a two week holiday, and I read so many great books while I was there. Out of the books I read, though, there were two stand-out favourites.
The first is Sally Rooney’s excellent debut, Conversations with Friends. The book tells the…
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