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The novels of British author Jon McGregor are distinguished by their enlightening perceptions of both human nature and Mother Nature, and by their restrained prose, as potent as it is subtle. His latest, Lean Fall Stand, employs these talents to tell...
As our thoughts turn to life after the pandemic, authors from this year’s Hay festival choose books that have inspired lasting change in them
The best (and worst) novels of 2021 so far In this regularly updated guide, our critics review the best of the year's fiction – and suggest a few books to avoid Eight of the best: this year's top novels The Start-Up Wife by Tahmima Anam ★★★☆☆ Tahmima Anam is best known as the award-winning writer of three novels (A Golden Age, The Good Muslim and The Bones of Grace), and less well-known as the executive director of a music technology startup called ROLI. An experience no doubt plumbed for her latest book, The Startup Wife, a tech industry-set reverse romcom in which a young Bangl...
Rating: It begins like a thriller. ‘When the storm came in it was unexpected and Thomas Myers was dropped to his knees. The air darkened in the distance. There was a roar and everything went white against him. It had a kind of violence he wasn’t prepared for. He wrapped his arms around his head and lay flat on the ice to keep from being hurled away.’ We are in the Antarctic, 300 miles away from any kind of civilisation. Three men have come to work at Station K for Geographic Information Services: Robert, who is an old hand, and Luke and Thomas, who are novice research scientists. The s...