The best books of 2020: From contemporary Arabic novels to pandemic dispatches
SHARE One of the few benefits of living through a pandemic is that we suddenly had a lot more time to read books – and though some publishing dates were delayed, in the end it was a treat to be able to lose ourselves in historical epics from Hilary Mantel and Maggie O’Farrell while rooting for Dubai author Avni Doshi at the Booker Prize. Pure page-turning, best-selling escapism came from the likes of former Dubai resident Stuart Turton, and the best non-fiction reflection of the year we’...
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