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Luster, the debut novel from Brooklyn-based writer Raven Leilani, who previously told British
Vogue its success has “surpassed what I could have dared imagine”. (“Someone please collect me from the floor,” she said of her latest endorsement from the former President of the United States).
Also included in the eclectic mix:
The Undocumented Americans, an exploration of the hidden lives of US immigrants by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, herself one of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard; Liz Moore’s heart-pounding thriller
Long Bright River; and Brit Bennett’s bestseller
The Vanishing Half, which HBO has swiftly snapped up the rights to.
The best crime fiction of 2020: Liz Moore, Jane Casey, Scott Turow and more Declan Burke and Declan Hughes, our crime-writing specialists, share their picks of the year
Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 06:00 Declan Burke and Declan Hughes
Liz Moore, author of Long Bright River.
A strong year for Irish crime fiction opened with Nicola White’s
A Famished Heart (Viper), in which religious martyrdom provides the motive for a suspicious death. Malachi O’Doherty’s debut
Terry Brankin Has a Gun (Merrion Press) was an impressive addition to the post-Troubles canon of crime writing while Arlene Hunt’s
No Escape (Hachette Ireland) delivered a pulsating thriller set in gangland Dublin.
Enjoyed Netflix s chess drama The Queen s Gambit (2020)? Then you share similar tastes with former United States president Barack Obama.
The 59-year-old has unveiled his yearly list of favourite films, television shows, books and music of 2020, in a series of posts on Twitter last week.
In films, he highlighted a diverse slate of content, including Beijing-born director Chloe Zhao s critically acclaimed Nomadland; the upcoming Pixar animated film Soul; director David Fincher s Netflix feature Mank; and African- American actor Chadwick Boseman s final work, Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, which is also on Netflix.
Mr Obama also included Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, a documentary which was helmed by Higher Ground Productions - the production house he founded with his wife Michelle.