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1 month ago | 
womanalive.co.uk | Kate Coleman |Lucy Jones |Francis Spufford |James Cone
Hosted by Claire MustersThis month I’m reading…
Unmaking Mary: Shattering the myth of perfect motherhood
By Chine McDonald (978-1399814638, Hodder & Stoughton)
This is an unusual book: the description from Chine’s publisher indicates it is part-memoir, part social and theological commentary, focusing on how motherhood has been shaped, negatively (but also positively), by cultural and theological understandings of what it means to be a woman.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
naturahoy.com | Jane Eastick |Sheila Heti |Francis Spufford |Danzy Senna
If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In keeping with our annual tradition, we asked three of our critics for their favorite books of the last year. Between them, they chose 15 books, three of them reissues, and the majority fiction.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
news.nestia.com | Liz Moore |Francis Spufford
I’ve long believed that crime fiction runs along a spectrum between order and chaos, where the two seemingly disparate states are always intertwined, ever-changing, never settled. It makes sense that a genre offering a window into the way we really function in society and behave with one another would embrace constraints while also constantly subverting them.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
faber.co.uk | Rebecca Watson |Francis Spufford
Described by Richard Osman as ‘the best book of the century’, Golden Hill was first published in 2016 and won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Francis Spufford
Cahokia JazzBy Francis SpuffordFiction/Faber & Faber/Paperback/482 pages/$29.68/Amazon SG (amzn.to/4aiYDVe)5 out of 5A dead body, disembowelled on a rooftop. Two detectives, studying the scene of the crime in the cold hours before dawn. Across the water, a possible witness: a beautiful, enigmatic femme fatale who may be their downfall. So far, so noir. But this murder has occurred in a city that does not exist, in the Roaring Twenties of an America that never was.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Laird Hunt |Tommy Orange |Francis Spufford |Maura Cheeks
Float Up, Sing Down, by Laird HuntIn Laird Hunt’s collection of stories, residents of an Indiana farming community in 1982 go about their routines, with secrets and regrets roiling beneath the surface. “Things grew where they grew and flew where they flew and that was all there was to it,” thinks one character. It’s an assessment that infuses these deeply felt tales.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
zip06.com | Francis Spufford
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford In an alternate 1920s USA, the Indigenous city of Cahokia remains a sovereign nation and diverse metropolis. When a white man is murdered in what appears to be a ritualistic sacrifice, racial tensions mount, and the city is on the verge of upheaval. Full of historical detail and grappling with themes of identity and belonging, Cahokia Jazz is a rich detective noir worthy of Raymond Chandler. Miranda, R.J. Julia Bookseller, Madison
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Laird Hunt |Tommy Orange |Francis Spufford |Maura Cheeks
As Black History Month in the United States draws to a close, several of our picks for the 10 best books reflect a reckoning with the history of slavery.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Francis Spufford
Narrator Andy Ingalls delivers all the nuances of a full cast in Spufford's latest, a literary detective novel that takes place in an alternate universe. In an authoritative tone, Ingalls brings to life Cahokia, located on the banks of the Mississippi. In the novel, this ancient Indigenous society lives on in the 1920s, seeming to flourish in its diversity. But when Barrow discovers a mutilated body, the community's facade of racial coexistence is exposed.
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Feb 4, 2024 | 
dandelionchandelier.com | Francis Spufford |Margot Livesey |Kelly Link |Sheila Williams
New month, new books! Book Light is our Dandelion Chandelier curated list of the most-anticipated new book releases every month, and next up is February 2024. If you ask us, the perfect February read is sweet and spicy and full of heart. So what are the best new new novels, poetry collections, memoirs and other non-fiction books to read coming out in February 2024? Our intrepid team has been exploring and here’s what we found: over 30 new book releases coming soon that we cannot wait to read.
