Sunday book pick
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Sunday book pick: ‘Great Granny Webster’ is a handbook on how to remember someone who refuses to die
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Sunday book pick: A hawk is an elegant metaphor for a disintegrating marriage in ‘The Pilgrim Hawk’
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Sunday book pick: ‘In Youth is Pleasure’ is a whimsical bildungsroman about youthful curiosity
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Sunday book pick: ‘Transcription’ brings us memories of a moment not ‘recorded’
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Sunday book pick: ‘Sister Carrie’, published in 1900, predicted the individualism of urban life
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Sunday book pick: Past imperfect, future tense for young Indian men in Snigdha Poonam’s ‘Dreamers’
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International Booker shortlist: Wives cry tears of blood in ‘The Witch’
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International Booker shortlist: Life after the revolution in ‘The Nights are Quiet in Tehran’
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International Booker shortlist: Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘The Director’ novelises the art of propaganda
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International Booker shortlist: The cost of living as a free woman in ‘She Who Remains’
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International Booker shortlist: Ghostly men and ghosts of men in ‘On Earth As It Is Beneath’
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Sunday book pick: An untameable pain in Niege Sinno’s memoir of childhood sexual abuse, ‘Sad Tiger’
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Sunday book pick: In ‘The Cat’, a newly-married elderly couple takes an abiding vow of hatred
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Sunday book pick: Seven die in quest for a ‘perfect woman’ in crime novel ‘The Tokyo Zodiac Murders’
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures’, an author laughs at himself
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Sunday book pick: Matchmaking in hard times in Tennessee Williams’s 1944 play ‘The Glass Menagerie’
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Sunday book pick: Mario Benedetti’s 1960 novel ‘The Truce’ makes the heart soar, then breaks it
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Sunday book pick: Twenty-four hours in a Soviet gulag in ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’
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Sunday book pick: Meek men meet neoliberal blues in Sarnath Banerjee’s 2004 graphic novel ‘Corridor’
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Sunday book pick: In the 1940 novella ‘The Invention of Morel’, a premonition of digital memories
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Sunday book pick: No crime is committed in Agatha Christie’s 1944 novel, ‘Absent in the Spring’
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Sunday book pick: A woman in prostitution on death row tells her story in ‘Woman at Point Zero’
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Sunday book pick: Fleeing the ‘United States of Bush’ in Ben Lerner’s ‘Leaving the Atocha Station’
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Sunday book pick: The melodrama of unequal marriages in W Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Merry-Go-Round’
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Sunday book pick: In the Hindi novel ‘Tarpan’, a ‘chamar’ family avenges a lifetime of indignity
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Terrific Mother’, a woman’s search for self after accidentally killing a baby
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Sunday book pick: RK Narayan’s autobiographical novel ‘The English Teacher’ mourns his wife’s death
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Sunday book pick: An oppressive boarding school childhood in 1989 novel ‘Sweet Days of Discipline’
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Sunday book pick: The price of belonging in Bani Basu’s immigrant novel ‘The Continents Between’
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Sunday book pick: An unaccomplished, angry mother in Doris Lessing’s 1988 novel, ‘The Fifth Child’
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Sunday book pick: You don’t want to check out of Vicki Baum’s ‘Grand Hotel’
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Sunday book pick: Cynthia Ozick’s Holocaust novella, ‘The Shawl’, predicts the Palestine horror
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Sunday book pick: The vast world of mental health and caregiving in children’s novel ‘Rain Holiday’
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Sunday book pick: Namita Gokhale’s ‘Priya’ is an unexpected socialite drama about a nation in flux
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Sunday book pick: How not to write a novel in Muriel Spark’s final book, ‘The Finishing School’
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Sunday book pick: In Natalia Ginzburg’s ‘Sagittarius’, a scrutiny of the lies we tell ourselves
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Sunday book pick: Dreams of freedom in ‘The Society of Reluctant Dreamers’ by José Eduardo Agualusa
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Sunday book pick: The rippling tragedies of North Irish conflict in Louise Kennedy’s ‘Trespasses’
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Sunday book pick: ‘Miss Kim Knows’ by Cho Nam-Joo is an escape route out of Korea’s sexist culture
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Sunday book pick: Namita Gokhale’s 1984 debut novel, ‘Paro’, is sassy, sexy, and savage
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Sunday book pick: Abuse and desire go hand in hand in Yukio Mishima’s 1950 novel ‘Thirst For Love’
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Sunday book pick: ‘Love in the Time of Serial Killers’ is a perfect romance for cynics and sceptics
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Sunday book pick: ‘The Children of the New Forest’, the first historical novel for young readers
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Sunday book pick: A mother’s beating heart is at the centre of the anthology ‘Stories of Motherhood’
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Sunday book pick: Death and war in Eric Ambler’s supremely stylish spy thriller, ‘Journey into Fear’
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Sunday book pick: In 2025 Booker Prize-longlisted ‘Universality’, everyone’s politics is for sale
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Sunday book pick: A schoolboy’s skiing holiday goes horribly wrong in the 1995 novella, ‘Class Trip’
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Sunday book pick: Claire Keegan’s novella ‘Foster’ gives language to the painful drama of childhood
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Sunday book pick: The tender preoccupations of an old woman in Anita Desai’s ‘Fire on the Mountain’
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Sunday book pick: ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by JD Salinger, a novel I have read 11 times
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Sunday book pick: Husband vs best friend vs child vs career in ‘Goodbye Without Leaving’
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Sunday book pick: In ‘The Famous Magician’, Argentinian writer César Aira weighs literature in gold
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Sunday book pick: Ghost stories by Satyajit Ray in ‘Ghosts, Supernatural and Tales of the Uncanny’
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Sunday book pick: The dangers of self-absorption in ‘Nothing But the Night’ by John Williams
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Sunday book pick: What if you could fire your boss, asks the Korean novel ‘Counterattacks at Thirty’
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Small Boat’, no one is at fault when 27 migrants drown in international waters
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Sunday book pick: A queer middle-aged woman goes off track in Miranda July’s novel ‘All Fours’
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Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’
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Sunday book pick: In Jonathan Franzen’s novel ‘Crossroads,’ the maker abandons the faithful
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Sunday book pick: Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel ‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’ is a total romp
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Sunday book pick: Eight iconic women writers inspire freedom and creativity in ‘A Life of One’s Own’
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Sunday book pick: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1848 social media sensation book ‘White Nights’
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Sunday book pick: Upendranath Ashk’s wickedly funny short stories in ‘Hats and Doctors’
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Sunday book pick: In Marilynne Robinson’s novel ‘Housekeeping,’ a family falls through the cracks
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Sunday book pick: A band of single women make sense of changing world order in 1853 novel ‘Cranford’
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Sunday book pick: ‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson is an utterly mad novel
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Sunday book pick: Husband, wife, and a sex robot in Rachel Ingalls’s 1987 novella, ‘In the Act’
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Sunday book pick: A security guard’s front-row view of the consumerism mania in ‘Standing Heavy’
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Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Sunday book pick: Ari Gautier’s ‘The Thinnai’ is a rambunctious novel about Pondicherry’s ‘natives’
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Sunday book pick: A shocking tale about the mad pursuit of freedom in Stefan Zweig’s ‘A Chess Story’
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Sunday book pick: Horror icon Shirley Jackson’s final novel ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’
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Sunday book pick: In his memoir ‘Exit Wounds’, journalist Peter Godwin probes his dilemma of ‘home’
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Sunday book pick: The pleasures of abiding by your convictions in ‘The English Understand Wool’
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Sunday book pick: Empathetic and nuanced stories of animal-human conflict in ‘The Mirror of Wonders’
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Sunday book pick: ‘The Year of the Hare’, a 1975 Finnish novel, shows how to create your own miracle
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Sunday book pick: Sexual escapism and familial expectations lock horns in ‘The Children’s Bach’
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Sunday book pick: The sex lives of Iranian housewives in Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Embroideries’
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Sunday book pick: ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ is a novel you dream, not read
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Sunday book pick: ‘My Heavenly Favourite’, a novel about sexual grooming puts the reader in a trance
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Sunday book pick: Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s only short story ‘Recitatif’
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Sunday book pick: The horrifying effects of the failure of language in ‘A Cage in Search of a Bird’
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Sunday book pick: The many reflections of womanhood in Danielle Pender’s ‘Watching Women and Girls’
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Sunday book pick: The fabulous life of a Bombay spinster in Eunice de Souza’s ‘Dangerlok’
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Sunday book pick: Being young and bored in Carson McCullers’s novel ‘The Member of the Wedding’
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Sunday book pick: ‘A Little Lumpen Novelita’ is the perfect introduction to Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre
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Sunday book pick: ‘Farewell Song’, Rabindranath Tagore’s metafiction novel meant to silent critics
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Sunday book pick: ‘Spring Garden’ is a sobering novel about what uninspiring buildings do to a city
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Sunday book pick: We do not need to know everything about the Andamanese, says ‘The Last Island’
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Sunday book pick: The poems in WH Auden’s ‘Another Time’ flaunt his talents as a storyteller
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Soldier Sailor’, the horrors of being a mother to your child (and husband)
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Karmachari’, VP Kale reimagines what contentment for urban Indians looks like
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Thirst’, Jesus is god’s son, a miracle worker, and a man who was killed
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Sunday book pick: Why the children’s classic ‘The Wind in the Willows’ inspires joy in adults
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Sunday book pick: Through tales of food and desire, ‘Butter’ depicts a deeply misogynistic Japan
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Sunday book pick: Annie Ernaux’s writerly and personal selves come together in ‘Exteriors’
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Sunday book pick: A train ride ends in murder in Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’
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Sunday book pick: Shakespeare in Palestine in Isabella Hammad’s ‘Enter Ghost’
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Sunday book pick: Lin Xinwu’s 1984 novel ‘The Wedding Party’ reveals the true cost of a wedding
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Sunday book pick: A marriage made in hell in Jibanananda Das’s 1970 novel ‘Malloban’