The loss of a fishing boat and crew in a nor'easter, and its ripple effects, from Amanda Fairbanks. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares her reflections on grief. A new legal thriller by Stacey Abrams is here. And plenty more.
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In Clubland
At #3,
The Last Thing He Told Me (Reese’s Book Club) is Laura Dave’s “suspenseful latest,” per our review, in which “a Bay Area woman copes with her husband’s sudden disappearance.”
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead, the Read with Jenna pick and #13 on the list, is “a breathtaking epic of a female aviator,” our starred review said, and “a stunning feat.” Its narratives follow Marian, a WWII pilot whose attempted circumnavigation of the globe is presumed to have ended in her death; her artist twin sister, Jamie; and Hadley, the movie star cast to play Marian in a present-day film.
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I have been a fan of apocalyptic sci-fi since I was hooked as a teenager by the 1950s classic
The Day of the Triffids, by UK author John Wyndham. Rather than putting me off, the covid-19 pandemic has actually fed my appetite for end-of-the-world tale. That is because the past year has shown us in real life, though on a lesser scale, how we face global threats and whether authorities will ride roughshod over civil liberties to save lives overall.
But from deadly plagues to nuclear armageddon and oncoming asteroids, I thought I had heard all the different ways civilisation could be doomed, but Andy Weir, author of
What to Watch, Play and Read in Australia This Weekend
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