Booksellers Favourite Books Of All Time
Sellers of the field play favourites with books perfectly, and personally, pitched Tuesday May 11, 2021
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Often my favourite book is the one I’m currently recommending to customers. At present, I’m raving about
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson. I toyed with choosing a classic (
Anne of Green Gables) or a Booker winner (
Girl, Woman, Other) as my favourite read, but nothing beats discovering a hidden gem. A book that slips stealth-like into your hand by an author you’ve never heard of.
As a bookseller I’m constantly racing to finish one book and start another. Which is why it is a rare and beautiful moment when, as happened with
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Katherine Heiny’s 2017 novel
Standard Deviation – about an ill-matched married couple – was “to my mind one of the best, and funniest” of recent years, said India Knight in The Sunday Times. Her new one may be “even better”. It tells the story of Jane, a primary school teacher who moves to a small town in Michigan and begins dating “an exceptionally handsome woodworker”. He is perfect for her in just about every respect, except, as Jane discovers, for one: he has “slept with every sleepable-with woman in the county”. As someone whose “expectations are traditional”, Jane finds this increasingly troubling (though for the reader its effect is “cumulatively hilarious”). Weighty and tender – and at times “profoundly sad” – this is a book that “takes the tiny stuff of everyday life and makes it big and meaningful”.
This week’s reading recommendation is
The Lost Ones by Anita Frank. Returning from war after serving as a nurse and struggling to come to terms with the death of her fiancé, Stella Marcham welcomes the opportunity to stay with her pregnant sister, Madeleine, at her country mansion, Greyswick. Stella soon discovers that the house has its own tragic history and becomes once again, surrounded by trauma. Hearing sobs in the night and footsteps on the stairs, she grows ever more determined to discover the truth behind Greyswick’s history and ghostly happenings. If you like gothic and ghostly historic fiction