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Books 2026

  1. Kate Atkinson - Cold Histories Gripping and incredibly well written. Perhaps too many shadows of 90s lad culture ?
  2. Vicente Luis Mora - Centroeuropa One of the best I’ve read in a very long time. Magical realism in a muddy field in 1800s Prussia.
  3. Andrew Michael Hurley - Starve Acre Grief and isolation and the crimes of the past. Very bleak and atmospheric.
  4. Oliver Burkeman - Mediations for Mortals Essentially 4000 weeks chewed over and formed into daily nuggets. Very good all the same.
  5. Ben Gazur - A Feast of Folklore Nice round up of a lot of peculiar traditions and beliefs. The devil will steal your potatoes!
  6. Bae Suah - Untold Night and Day Loved this. Dream-like is an overused descriptor but this deserves it. Shadows, images, symbols, collapsing in on themselves in a hot Seoul night.