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Oct 19, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Percival L. Everett |Colm Toibin |Carys Davies
We like to measure our time in books, and 2024 has been quite the year. With every trend, season and pop culture phenomenon (brat summer, we’re looking at you), we reflect fondly on the books that got us through it all. From seasoned authors that we couldn’t wait to catch up with like Haruki Murakami, Sally Rooney and Percival Everett, to newcomers we’ll keep our eyes on for years like Kaveh Akbar and Essie Chambers, 2024 has been a stellar year in fiction.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Carys Davies
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Carys Davies |Hanif Abdurraqib |Leif Enger
The Reviews Are In! April 2024 EditionReaders, it’s about that time — with a whirlwind month of new books, music and movies aplenty, you might be wondering what our top favorite reads have been in April. From a poignant memoir to a striking novel set on the Scottish highlands, a journey through our anxiety ridden world to a stunning collection of essays, these are our best reviewed books of the month. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Rachel Khong |Leif Enger |Carys Davies |Douglas Westerbeke
Real Americans, by Rachel KhongRachel Khong’s dazzling second novel probes issues of class, race, genetics, and identity. Her gripping narrative encompasses several love stories, political repression, the promise and limits of science, and the reverberations of dark secrets through two intertwined Chinese American families. I Cheerfully Refuse, by Leif EngerIn a rickety sailboat on storm-tossed Lake Superior, a grieving musician flees a powerful enemy.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
marketwatch.com | Carys Davies |Neel Mukherjee |Jennifer Croft |Leif Enger
By WSJ Books Staff The season is bursting with bold new works of fiction, tales that circle the world and travel in time. Our reviewers offer a guide to some of Spring's most arresting novels. Clear By Carys Davies | Scribner A stranger arrives on a remote Scots isle. His mission is to dispossess the only man who lives there.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Carys Davies |Alex Russell
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A minister in 1840s Scotland sails to a remote island to evict its last remaining inhabitant in the exquisite new novel from Carys Davies.
John Ferguson is a principled man. But when, in 1843, those principles drive him to break from the established Church of Scotland, the evangelical minister soon finds himself a poor man, too.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Carys Davies
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Ivar has lived alone for decades; the Highland Clearances, a series of mass evictions that began a century earlier, have already forced his family from the land. But if Scottish history would have him for another victim, Clear deftly upends the usual narrative.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Carys Davies
What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels In Carys Davies's latest novel, a financially struggling pastor is dispatched to a remote island to evict its lone resident.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Carys Davies
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Carys Davies
Of all the wonderfully apt images in Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, my favorite has to be the one that describes the seventy-four year old Olive and the widower Jack Kennison—lying on Jack’s bed together in the book’s final scene—as “two slices of Swiss cheese pressed together.” It’s such an odd, unappealing, vaguely sweaty picture of two elderly people, and yet it floors me every time I read it because of what comes next: “such holes they brought to this union—what pieces life took out...
