Katherine Rundell

Dec 5, 2024 | thebuzzmagazines.com | Cindy Burnett |Emily Nussbaum |Katherine Rundell |William Powell

The end of 2024 is rapidly approaching, and the holidays will be here before we know it. This time of year, I am frequently asked for bookish gift ideas. Accordingly, I thought I would create a list of books that make great gifts. For ease of browsing, I have categorized my suggestions to provide some guidance to anyone looking for the perfect book for a loved one, friend, coworker, or even a gift exchange.

Dec 4, 2024 | arcamax.com | Kao Kalia Yang |Tommy Tomlinson |Ben Macintyre |Katherine Rundell

Where Rivers PartBy Kao Kalia YangThe St. Paul writer had an astonishingly productive year, publishing four books aimed at various age groups. My favorite was her memoir of her mother, a companion to “The Song Poet” (about her father) that goes back to her mother’s youth to trace her astonishing story of survival — through multiple miscarriages, life in a refugee camp, marital woes, unsafe living conditions and more.

Nov 27, 2024 | fivebooks.com | John Vaillant |Katherine Rundell |Patrick Radden Keefe

🏆 Winner of the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for NonfictionDavid France was a gay man living in New York City in the early 1980s. The book tells the story of how his social circle was decimated by the disease, but it also tells the story of how AIDS, ultimately and in the face of great prejudice, changed social attitudes towards homosexuality.

Nov 22, 2024 | bostonherald.com | Malcolm Forbes |Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell wears several hats with style and aplomb. She is a fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford; she is an award-winning children’s writer; and she is a biographer, author of the magisterial “Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne” — the Renaissance poet she convincingly claims to be “the greatest writer of desire in the English language.”Now Rundell has written a book about animals that are under threat from extinction.

Nov 20, 2024 | kansascity.com | Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell wears several hats with style and aplomb. She is a fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford; she is an award-winning children's writer; and she is a biographer, author of the magisterial "Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne" - the Renaissance poet she convincingly claims to be "the greatest writer of desire in the English language."Now Rundell has written a book about animals that are under threat from extinction.