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Norwegian songstress
Sinikka Langeland is known for taking the traditions of Scandinavian folk – particularly that from the Finnskogen, Norway’s “Finnish forest” – and putting them in jazz-like contexts, working with improvisers to make music of unusual and uncommon beauty. (See 2015’s
The Half-Finished Heaven for a sterling example.) On
Wolf Rune, her sixth album for ECM, she goes it alone. Armed only with three varieties of kantele (a Finnish table harp that’s like an autoharp, but with a much wider range) and her rich voice, Langeland essays a program of traditional and original tunes, plus poetry set to her own music.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury)
The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria.
The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking)
Last year the
Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel.
Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N)
A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins as a proposal to refurbish a village church ends in murder; Canon Daniel Clement must investigate.
Oh, William! by Elizabeth Strout (Viking)