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Novelist on his new book, Lean Fall Stand, written 17 years after his trip to Antarctica

Author Mitch Johnson at Ketts Books in Wymondham - Credit: Supplied by Ketts Books As shops re-open we ask the people running some of our local independents what’s selling, what’s recommended and what they’ve loved reading during lockdown. Tracy Kenny, manager of Kett’s Books in Wymondham, said: “Its just been wonderful to be able to throw open the door and watch customers so happy to come in. They are happy to be in town, and especially to be allowed to browse and discover books the...

Review by Neil Mackay “WORDS, words, words, they’re all we have to go on,” Tom Stoppard wrote – half in melancholy, half in delight – in his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Language, Stoppard tells us in his tragicomic take on the lives of two minor characters in Hamlet, is what defines us poor human creatures – it’s all that separates us from the beasts. Jon McGregor must have been listening. His new novel, Lean Fall Stand, may ostensibly tell of a terrible acci...

Books: The best new reads hitting the bookshelves this year Turning the page on another year, experts offer their predictions of whats going to be hot in the world of books for 2021... What will you be reading in 2021? 06 January, 2021 01:00 There will be a bumper crop of new books published this year thanks to the pandemics effect on 2020s schedule ITS going to be a sizzling year for new books in 2021, from dazzling debuts and celebrity memoirs to tomes explori...

Books to look out for in 2021 Irish fiction New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation. Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.” Small Things Like These...

Everyone’s Talking About... No One Is Talking About This (Bloomsbury, February) by Patricia Lockwood, the ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter’, is set to be one of 2021’s buzziest books: a riveting novel about the collision between real and online life. Meanwhile, the sexy and absurdly readable Luster by Raven Leilani (Picador, January) is an unflinching interrogation of racial and sexual politics that carries ringing endorsements from Zadie Smith and Candice Carty-Williams. Rahul Raina’s How T...

These are the books set to create a buzz in 2021 29th December 2020 Turning the page on another year, experts offer their predictions of what’s going to be hot in the world of books for 2021. By Hannah Stephenson It’s going to be a sizzling year for new books in 2021, from dazzling debuts and celebrity memoirs to tomes exploring diversity, as well as light-hearted reads and even a revisiting of Bridget Jones. Many key titles were delayed due to the pandemic, so there should be a bumpe...

Art imitates life and the novels of 2021 confirm just how true this is. Writers, like everyone else, found themselves confined this year and the result is the recurring leitmotif of family, pervading almost every fiction genre from crime to coming-of-age novels, from historical fiction right through to dystopia. Here are some examples from the leading titles of the new year. January Billy OCallaghans Life Sentences (Jonathan Cape) is a family saga sweeping from famine Ireland right through to ...