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In her column, Re-Covered, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn’t be. Here’s a question: Can you name the debut novel, originally published in Britain in September 1965, that became a more or less immediate best seller, and the fans of which included Noël Coward, Daphne du Maurier, John Gielgud, Fay Weldon, David Storey, Margaret Drabble, and Doris Lessing? “A rare pleasure!” said Lessing. “I can’t remember another novel like it, it is so good and so original.” Coward, meanwhile, described it as “fascinating and remarkable,” admiring the au...

Bethanne Patrick Recommends Some Under-the-Radar Must-Reads December 29, 2020 Everyone else has published their year-end lists of The Best, Our Favorites, Top 10, and so forth (that includes me individually and Lit Hub editorially, too). Why shouldn’t we gather the Best from 2020’s Books You May Have Missed? Choosing from the fifty-odd titles means that these ten are really the cream of a much bigger crop. A few have already gathered awards ( High as the Waters Rise, Alligator), a few remain sleeper hits ( Greenwood, The Comeback), while others just sleep. Wake up, readers, and check ou...

Rachel Mann: 'I'm self-evidently a woman – but I'm glad I was once a man' The Anglican vicar, lesbian and trans woman on what it's like to be caught in the interstices of the culture war 15 December 2020 • 3:03pm Rachel Mann: “I’m glad that I was a man; that the story that I have had is my story.” Credit: Paul Cooper for The Telegraph Rachel Mann, first-time novelist, Anglican vicar, lesbian and trans woman, is stuck in the middle of more than one battle in today’s culture wars. The vocal lobby of trans activists, she says, regards her as a “dinosaur”. Traditionalists in th...

Balai de Sorcière Lawrence Scott’s Witchbroom is a visionary history of a Caribbean Spanish/French Creole family and an island over four centuries – to 20th-century independence. With an innovative tone and content, its carnival tales of crime and passion are told by the narrator Lavren, who is both male and female. First published in 1992, Witchbroom became a Caribbean classic. The following year it became a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, broadcast over eight nights and read by the author. It was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book. A pioneering work, it heral...