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Kirstin and Julie
The competitive threat posed by e-books has triggered a creative explosion in cover design and bookshops are now full of striking, colourful, sometimes even tactile, book covers.
A while ago, I wrote about A Death in the Family, the first of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six volume autobiographical novels. Since then, Knausgaard’s books have sold in bucket loads both in the U.K. and abroad.
There’s an avalanche of new exciting books coming our way over the next few months, many by authors we haven’t heard from in a while and one from an author we haven’t heard from in half a decade!
It’s hard to recommend classics to your teenage children without running the risk of turning them off forever (just the fact that it’s coming from you might be enough…). The Guardian has a clever answer: a list based on the ‘If you liked…’ principle. Well worth a look.
The Well-Read Teenager by The Guardian
The Guardian has made a very good list of children’s books that promote tolerance. Authors range from Malala and Amnesty International’s collection of short stories to Michael Morpurgo and Benjamin Zephaniah and there is something for every age range.
The Guardian – Books to breed tolerance: what children can read after the terrorist attacks in Paris
I’m a huge admirer of James Wood, the New Yorker’s book critic and one of the English speaking world’s most influential reviewers. His thoughtful and intelligent reviews never disappoint. Here are his top picks from 2014.
One of my favourite literary awards, the Bad Sex in Ficton Award, was just announced and this year Ben Okri runs away with the prize for the sex depicted in his latest book The Age of Magic.
