Thinking of polishing off a book this summer? Here’s where you should start.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Touted as the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting and profoundly moving book in many a season, this epic prose of brotherhood and the limits of human endurance will have you reading compulsively. Centred around four friends with a increasingly dark and destructive friendship, A Little Life is filled with dark examinations of memory and loss.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Winner of the Man Booker prize, this mesmerising novel encapsulates the near-mythic event of the failed murder of Bob Marley. It’s gripping, inventive and broad, spanning three decades and crossing continents.
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A touching and beautiful story about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. The interweaving of these two characters stories is impressive, illuminating the goodness within people.
Mercy Street by Tess Evans
The heartwarming tale of an elderly widower whose life is limited to grocery trips, time at the pub with his old friend and visits from his bossy visits. This all changes when he meets a single-mother who unexpectedly changes his life, their ultimate interaction and friendship ensues tales of mistakes, accidental families, forgiveness and the power of love.
The Women’s Pages by Debra Adelaide
The Women’s Pages is about the choices and compromises women make, about their griefs and losses, and the lasting emptiness that lives within them when the loss is gone. It explores the mysterious process of creativity, and the way stories are shaped and fiction is formed.
