Hungerford Bookshop says #Stay-home-and-read
Trish Lee
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There are some fantastic new books to look forward to in 2021 and while the lockdown is in place it’s a great time to stay inside and read. We asked EMMA MILNE-WHITE from our award-winning local independent Hungerford Bookshop for the heads-up on fiction to look forward to.
LET’S start with a novel that’s getting a lot of press and radio attention. Mrs Death Misses Death, by the performance poet Salena Godden is published on January 21. Death, in this book, is a black working-class woman. Exhausted from spending eternity doing her job, she unburdens herself to Wolf, who writes down her life story. Highly imaginative and deeply profound, this novel promises to be a meditation on life, death and everything in between.
Everyone’s Talking About.
No One Is Talking About This (Bloomsbury, February) by Patricia Lockwood, the ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter’, is set to be one of 2021’s buzziest books: a riveting novel about the collision between real and online life.
Meanwhile, the sexy and absurdly readable Luster by Raven Leilani (Picador, January) is an unflinching interrogation of racial and sexual politics that carries ringing endorsements from Zadie Smith and Candice Carty-Williams.
Rahul Raina’s How To Kidnap The Rich (Little Brown, May) has already been optioned by HBO: a Delhi-set, reality TV-based literary crime crossover, it will appeal to fans of Parasite and Crazy Rich Asians.
Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera / Viking
Several authors tackle colonialism in very different ways, from
Alex Renton confronting his own family’s involvement in slavery in
Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Enslaving Past (Canongate), and
Sathnam Sanghera in
Kehinde Andrews, who rather more controversially takes on capitalism and racism together in
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World (Allen Lane).
Gender and Identity Politics
Likewise gender and identity politics get a good look-in, from
Julie Bindel’s manifesto,
Feminism for Women (Constable) to
You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed To Be: Into The Chaos of Modern Masculinity (Bloomsbury) by founder of the Book of Man website
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