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Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, Richard Osman and more on what they re reading | Summer reading

, longlisted for the International Booker, has a disabled child at its centre and squares up to dangerous subjects. It is a heartening novel, because though it asks the reader to think hard, it puts its faith in simplicity and love. Neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan offers The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness to put you wise about Havana syndrome and other puzzles: it’s not cheerful, but it is current and it is bracing. David Nicholls Something new: I very much enjoyed Meg Mason’s witty, affecting Sorrow and Bliss. Something old: I love John Cheever’s stories and am curious to know which have made it into Julian Barnes’s new selection,

The Paris Review - The Horror of Good Behaviour

Molly Keane. Photo: © D. Donahue. “All my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives,” says Aroon St. Charles, the tall, bosomy antiheroine of Molly Keane’s Good Behaviour, minutes after killing her mother . “I have lived for the people dearest to me, and I am at a loss to know why their lives have been at times so perplexingly unhappy.” As a narrator, Aroon is a monster of repression, revealing things she herself does not know on every page. Take this first scene, in which she—well, murder is such an ugly word. Let’s just say the book opens with Aroon speeding her invalid mother’s twilight years to their inevitable conclusion with the aid of an indigestible rabbit mousse. When, afterward, she orders the housekeeper to save the leftovers for lunch—mustn’t waste!—we know, even if she doesn’t, that this act of symbolic cannibalism is meant to perfect her revenge. But reveng

On my radar: Richard Osman s cultural highlights

Richard Osman was born in 1970 and grew up in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. He started his career as an executive producer on TV shows such as Deal Or No Deal and 8 Out of 10 Cats. He pitched the gameshow Pointless to the BBC in 2009 and has now been the show’s cohost for 12 years, alongside his university friend Alexander Armstrong. Last year Osman’s novel The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) became the first debut to take the Christmas No 1 slot.

On my radar: Richard Osman s cultural highlights | Richard Osman

Tracey is a great rapper, a great writer, and he puts big melodic hooks in all of his songs. I love a big hook, and this new album is just absolutely full of them. There are five or six tracks that you cannot get out of your head after the first listen. The grime and rap coming out of Britain at the moment is extraordinary. To people who say there’s nothing like punk these days, I say you haven’t listened to grime. It’s the music of energy and disaffection. 2. Film Cristin Milioti and Andy Samberg in Palm Springs. Photograph: Alamy

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