Forget all those cheap, lazy accounts about migrants heading to the UK – Hayden joins them, tells their stories, and it’s bleakly riveting and utterly heartbreaking Sally Hayden | My Fourth Time, We Drowned It’s brief, beautiful, and compellingĮlif Shafak | 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange WorldĪn amazing, disturbing novel - the story of a woman’s dying moments as she reflects on her own life and the people around her My novel of the year – a desperately poignant insight into Ireland’s ‘Magdalene laundries’ where an estimated 30,000 women were incarcerated between the 18th and 20th centuries. Grab a glass of mulled wine, and hunker down for some classic short stories involving murder and intrigue The story of Joe, liberated by reading and gaining self-confidence through the mysterious Treacle Walker, a rag and bone manĬecily Gayford (ed) | Murder in the Falling Snow Let me know what you think.Ī genuinely unnerving thriller that begins with eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them.Īn entertaining retrospective over the twentieth century through the eyes of Mary, a chocolate-lover who lives through the events that defined so many of us But this year I’m thinking we need to lose ourselves in stories, so there’s just a bit more fiction than non-fiction in this year’s list. I usually aim to balance fiction and non-fiction choices.
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