Cosy crime, cookbooks and a surprise hit: what we've really read in the pandemic | Books
It was a chance to finally get around to Tolstoy or Proust, but the charts tell a different story. Which books did we actually turn to in the lockdowns?
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It was a chance to finally get around to Tolstoy or Proust, but the charts tell a different story. Which books did we actually turn to in the lockdowns?
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Lucie Elven is the author of The Weak Spot, out with Soft Skull. Madeleine Watts is the author of The Inland Sea, published by Pushkin Press. The two authors met in late 2016 in New York, after which Madeleine read Lucie’s short stories and Lucie read Madeleine’s essays. They met again in 2019, when Madeleine bumped into Lucie at London Pride, walking in the middle of a thronged street. A few months later, they caught up properly at a pub, where it was pouring with rain and they ended up drinking a fair bit of wine and gin. With both of their novels released this winter, the two authors...