Some highly anticipated new novels from Andrew O’Hagan, Coco Mellors, and Claire Messud as well as some winter cooking inspiration.
Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan
Jen read this on holiday and what a rollicking read it was - set in a fictional Boris Johnson era London, this big book (641 pages) comes with huge ambition. Andrew O’Hagan is one of the new guard of British writers who moves effortlessly through genres: journalism, essay writing, a semi autobiographical novel (Mayflies 2020) and now this amazing book, a Middllemarch for the 21st century, full of social commentary and exhilarating prose.
From the The Guardian review:
“ London is ‘a den of thieves and chancers, bloated by Russian cash’ “
Coco Mellors, best selling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein, is back with her new novel Blue Sisters. Click here to read The Guardian interview on how Mellors has written a hopeful and optimistic story about family, addiction and grief.
Claire Messud, the American writer and her new novel: This Strange Eventful History. The New York Times headlined it like this: “A Loving daughter, Obsessed with her Parents’ Misery, Seeks its Roots.” Read the article here.
Cookbooks
Finally, because it is winter, and fun in the kitchen is heart and stomach-warming, we want to include some of the new cookbooks that have arrived. What a great time for comfort food and what better place for inspiration than from Southern Europe, the Mediterranean and Turkey. Can we recommend:
Spain - The Cookbook - by Simone and Ines Ortega Basque: Spanish Recipes from San Sebastian & Beyond by José Pizzaro The Forest Feast by Erin Gleeson Sebze by Ozlem Warren
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