Emily Goulding

2 months ago | nbmagazine.co.uk | Emily Goulding |Sophie Percival

Catherine Airey’s Confessions follows three generations of women moving from Ireland to New York, and it was a book that I simply didn’t want to end. It opens with Cora Brady, stranded in New York in September 2001 after she loses her father to 9/11. When she receives a letter from her estranged aunt in rural Ireland inviting her to come and stay, her family history begins to unspool, revealing generations of unspoken history and secrets. I could barely believe how good this book was.

Oct 15, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Emily Goulding |Sophie Percival

A Sunny Place for Shady People is Mariana Enriquez’s latest offering of short stories, following her 2022 novel, Our Share of the Night. Horror is something that she’s perfected to a tee over her literary career, and this collection has raised the stakes for everybody in the genre to an entirely new level. This was such an enticing collection of stories.

Sep 19, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Emily Goulding |Sophie Percival

Written while Sarah Manguso herself was going through a divorce, her latest novel Liars tells the story of a relationship, and the ways in which it falls apart. When Jane marries John, she is a writer, and he is an artist. And when she marries him, he remains an artist - whilst she becomes a wife, a mother, and the one to hold their relationship and family together. That is, until John leaves her for someone else. Told in short vignettes, Liars is a novel of rage.

Aug 14, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Sophie Percival |Emily Goulding

Private Rites, the latest offering from Julia Armfield, has made a splash – pun intended. There’s certainly a theme to all of Armfield’s writing – water - and she does it so well that it’s impossible for this repetition to be a bad thing. Private Rites follows three sisters processing the death of their father and their own relationships to each other. The catch? They’re living in is a time of ceaseless rain – so ceaseless that the world is ending. This book was so good.

Aug 14, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Emily Goulding |Sophie Percival

The Unwilding by Marina Kemp is a dream of a read. Telling the story of a famed author’s family, and his young, protege writer who is slightly more interested in them than she should be. It’s a book that spans Sicily, London, and Appalachia over decades.