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The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson audiobook review â a Caribbean childâs-eye view of 60s Bradford (opens the original)
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The author captures the comedy and cruelty in this tenderly written coming-of-age tale This Womenâs prize-nominated novel from Marcia Hutchinson is told from the perspective of Mercy Hanson, a girl born in Bradford in 1962 to a mother she adores and a father she fears. We follow Mercy, their spirited fifth child, from birth through her toddler years to primary education. There she discovers books for the first time, in which she finds delicious escape. In her first week at school, she flees th
My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy audiobook review â gripping vision of a fearless writer (opens the original)
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A fictional British author in Paris sets out to explore Stein through the lens of her own friendships, in this inventive, perfectly paced portrait It is late 2024, and an unnamed British author living in Paris is trying to write an essay on Gertrude Stein, the modernist writer and art collector. The author has been distracted by her friend Evaâs cat, who is lost and whose name is âitâ in lower case, which inevitably leads to confusion â has Eva lost her cat or her mind? (Her other friend
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie audiobook review â stories with levity and laughter (opens the original)
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The author explores themes of legacy, mortality and loneliness in the first work of fiction since his near-fatal attack Five short stories and five readers make up Salman Rushdieâs collection, The Eleventh Hour, his first work of fiction since the near-fatal attack in 2022 where he sustained life-changing injuries. These tales find the author exploring legacy, mortality, loneliness and the ageing process. In these potentially bleak themes, Rushdie finds levity and laughter, as well as profundi
All About My Mother by Rachael Stirling review â a joyous love letter to Diana Rigg (opens the original)
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Beautifully written by her daughter, this is a funny and intimate eulogy to the 60s star of The Avengers who went on to specialise in fierce, complicated women The late actor Diana Rigg declined to call herself a feminist, noting: âWhy would I burn my bra? I need my bra.â Nonetheless, her ideas on womanhood were ahead of their time. In an interview with Michael Parkinson, she observed how marriage was âall rather pagan, donât you think? ⦠A lot of women see it as security. Well, Iâm
New Cemetery by Simon Armitage audiobook review â the poet laureateâs meditations take flight (opens the original)
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The building of a cemetery during the pandemic inspires the Huddersfield-born author to reflect on childhood memories and the changing local landscape When Huddersfield council proposed turning some local grazing land into a cemetery during the Covid lockdown, some nearby residents were unhappy. Not poet laureate Simon Armitage, who also lived close to the site. In the introductory essay to his poetry collection, New Cemetery, he notes how the dead would be ideal neighbours for a writer who enjo
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