Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.

Annie Condon is reading The Long Answer by Anna Hogeland

The Long Answer by Anna Hogeland is a brilliant novel about mothering, not mothering, and all the states in between including wanting a child, losing a child, and bearing witness to other women’s experiences.

The novel begins when the narrator is twelve weeks…

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Lian Hingee is reading Unnecessary drama by Nina Kenwood

So apparently mind-reading isn’t real, and it’s impossible to look at someone and know exactly what’s going on in their head, but honestly I have no other explanation for how Nina Kenwood managed to crack open my skull and write every single one of…

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Lian Hingee is reading The Trees by Percival Everett

The title of Percival Everett's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Trees doesn't give much away, but crack the cover on this extraordinary book, and you're in for a wild, wild ride. Deep in Trump country a brutal murder has taken place. At the crime scene…

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Gabrielle Williams is reading Loveland by Robert Lukins

So far as I'm concerned, Loveland by Robert Lukins is one of the best books of the year. May is married to the violent and volatile Patrick, and unfortunately their son Francis is turning into a chip off the old block. When May's grandmother bequeaths…

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Aurelia Orr is reading A Walk in the Dark by Jane Godwin

What’s the worst that can happen when a group of year nine students go hiking in the woods at night, with no adults … and no phones? A Walk in the Dark takes the wilderness survival story and twists it into…

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Baz Ozturk is reading Either/Or by Elif Batuman

I’m currently immersed in Selin’s world at Harvard, in this follow-up to The Idiot.

I am one of those readers who loves nerdy books about books, and Either/Or is definitely one of them. In fact Selin is one of the most bookish characters I’ve…

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Aurelia Orr is reading Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

This book is an absolute feast of every delight and pleasure the world has to offer. Rachel, a non-practicing Jew, has made calorie restriction and intensive cardio exercise her religion. When she meets Miriam, an Orthodox Jewish woman intent upon feeding her, Rachel suddenly…

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Clare Millar is reading Chronic Pain Couple by Karra Eloff

When I heard this title was being published, I was very excited! There’s nothing else like it – so many books on managing chronic pain, but very little acknowledging how it can impact couples and families.

Eloff – who lives with chronic pain…

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Ruth McHugh-Dillon is reading Free by Lea Ypi

Albania is a word I remember being flung around in the 90s during conflicts in the Balkans, but I know so little about the place and its people that this book really opened my eyes to its particular and peculiar history. The author, Lea Ypi…

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Emma Clarke is reading When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà

There’s a special kind of magic to this book that I’ve only experienced a few times. After reading the first page, I became hooked on the expressive language, the languid and hateful Mountains of Catalan and the intimate lives of the…

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