What I’m looking forward to reading in the first part of 2025, including four debuts novelists, two great American memoirists and one Nobel Prize winner.
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A poignant debut novel about a boy on the precipice of adulthood, struggling to understand how he might give and deserve love.Danny's family live in a large house close to the school where his father is headmaster. At school, his father's…
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Introduction by Colm TóibínBlending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There was…
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Translated from French by Jordan StumpA voice-driven, penetrating novel of the exploitation and alienation of the working class.In one strand, a young family bumps and scrapes through life. The hapless father balances demanding factory…
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From a new voice in Welsh literature, an atmospheric and poignant story of a relationship between two small-town Valleys men during the late 1980s.When two quiet men form a tentative connection neither knows where it might lead. M has…
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Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah MorrisLike a long winter's dream, this new novel by Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history.'Han Kang is one…
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A day in an English school in the 1980s unfolds in the aftermath of the death of a beloved teacher, Mr Ardennes. But while students and teachers grapple with this sudden loss, normal life, as it must, continues. Lessons, flirtations,…
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Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, BabyA BOOK TO WATCH IN 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES AND ROLLING STONES'As innovative,…
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Every night when I turn the lights out in my sixteenth-floor living room before I go to bed, I experience a shock of pleasure as I see the banks of lighted windows rising to the sky, crowding round me, and feel myself embraced by the…
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