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2024

key

bold = highlight of 2024

+ = not new in 2024

# = book club

books

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story, Nathan Thrall (2023)#

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. David McDuff) (1866)

Restless, William Boyd (2007)#

Ablutions, Patrick deWitt (2012)

The Hummingbird, Sandro Veronesi (trans. Elena Pala) (2021)

Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan (2023)#

The Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee (1983)

The Twilight Word, Werner Herzog (trans. Michael Hofmann) (2023)

Darryl, Jackie Ess (2021)

Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (2000)

Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan (2024)

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Richard Sennett (2018)

audiobooks

[X]

films

Sound of Metal (2019)

Saltburn (2023)

The Two Popes (2019)

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Hell or High Water (2016)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Past Lives (2023)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)+

If Only I Could Hibernate (2023)

Searching for Sugarman (2012)

All the President's Men (1976)

The Informant (2009)

Force Majeure (2014)

albums

'Stretch for the Stars' (EP), Joshua Idehen (2023)

'Shiver' (EP), The Libertines (2024)

'the record', boygenius (2023)

'Wall of Eyes', The Smile (2024)

'Promises', Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra (2021)

'Where's My Utopia?', Yard Act (2023)

'Cold Fact', Rodriquez (1970)

'Coming from Reality', Rodriquez (1971)

'What Now', Brittany Howard (2024)

exhibitions

'Time is Out of Joint', National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome)

'Philip Guston', Tate Modern

'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990', Tate Britain

'Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize', National Portrait Gallery

'The Cult of Beauty', Wellcome Collection

live music

Ben L'Oncle Soul, Alcazar Live

Yard Act, Rough Trade East

Romy, Roundhouse

theatre

The Cherry Orchard, Donmar Warehouse

restaurants

Perilla, Stoke Newington

Felice a Testaccio, Rome

Salumeria Con Cucina Roscioli, Rome

Zahter, Carnaby Street

Beckford Inn, Tewksbury

Chez Bruce (*), Wandsworth+

Ottolenghi, Spitalfields+

Dalla Terra, Covent Garden

Faros, Soho

Little House, Balham

Ye Olde Hobnails Inn, Tewkesbury

Pot Luck Club, Cape Town

Scala Pasta / Bar, Cape Town

La Colombe, Constantia

El Burro, Cape Town

Franks Corner, Franschhoek

The Girl's On The Square, Wilderness

Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape

Nest, Knysna

Maillard Baking Co, Knysna

Sirocco, Knysna

Coral, Mauritius

Kot Nou, Mauritius

Lemongrass, Mauritius

Le Benetier, Mauritius

Le Chamarel, Mauritius

Muang Thai, Camden

thirty7, Covent Garden

Morito, Hackney+

Nobu, Shoreditch+

podcasts

Kermode & Mayo's Take+

The Russell Brand Podcast (Radio 2 / Audioboom / XFM)+

The News Agents+

The News Meeting+

Today in Focus+

The Adam Buxton Podcast+

Joel Golby's Book Club

Desert Island Discs+

Off Menu

Young Again+

The Louis Theroux Podcast

tv

Mr Bates v The Post Office (limited series)

The Traitors (series 2)

Six Nations: Full Contact (limited series)

One Day (limited series)

Gossip Girl (series 1)

talks

'Judges, Politics, and the Public: A Judge’s View from Inside Westminster' by Sir Nicholas Green, Leicester Lit&Phil Society

foreign travel (no 'favourites of the year', all excellent)

Rome

South Africa (Cape Town, Franschhoek, Wilderness, Pumba Game Reserve, Knysna)

Mauritius

Seville

Amsterdam

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2023

key

bold = highlight of 2023

+ = not new in 2023

# = book club

books

The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2006)

The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner (2018)#

One Day, David Nicholls (2009)

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (2022)#

A Man in Love, Karl Ove Knausgaard (trans. Don Bartlett) (2009)

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori) (2018)#+

The Orton Diaries, Joe Orton (ed. John Lahr) (1996)

Heatwave, Victor Jestin (trans. Sam Taylor) (2021)

The Color Purple, Alice Walker (1982)#

Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner (2011)#

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2013)

All The Devils Are Here, David Seabrook (2002)

Milk Teeth, Jessica Andrews (2022)

Hot Milk, Deborah Levy (2016)

If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha (2020)#

A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City, Edward Chisholm (2022)

So Late in the Day, Claire Keegan (2023)

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver) (1979)

Assembly, Natasha Brown (2021)#

Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)#

When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut (trans. Adrian Nathan West)#

audiobooks

The Call of the Weird, Louis Theroux (2005)

For the Record, David Cameron (2019)+

films

Knives Out (2019)

Glass Onion (2022)

Belfast (2022)

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Aftersun (2022)

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Palm Springs (2020)

The Menu (2022)

The Worst Person in the World (2022)

Building Jerusalem (2015)

Close (2022)

Barbie (2023)

Logan Lucky (2017)

All My Friends Hate Me (2021)

The Lobster (2015)

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (2023)

Fracture (2007)

albums

'Dance Fever', Florence + the Machine (2022)

'Cautionary Tales Of Youth', Lapsley (2023)

'MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE...', Easy Life (2022)

'in/FLUX', Anna B Savage (2023)

'Where I'm Meant to Be', Ezra Collective (2023)

'Mid Air', Romy (2023)

'Ella and Louis', Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (1956)

exhibitions

'Dia Al-Azzawi: Painting Poetry', Ashmolean Museum

'Spain and the Hispanic World', Royal Academy

'Hilma af Kilnt & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life', Tate Modern

live music

Weyes Blood, Roundhouse

Easy Life, Alexandra Palace

Sofar Sounds, Holborn

Open Mic Night, Backstory

Soul Central, Stanway House (my wedding!)

Önder Focan Trio, Nardis Jazz Bar

The Aaron Parks Quartet, Ronnie Scott's

theatre

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells Theatre

A Little Life, Harold Pinter Theatre

restaurants

The Lion, Winchcombe+

Pierre Victoire, Oxford+

The Perch, Binsey+

Morse Bar, Randolph Hotel, Oxford

Noble Rot, Soho+

Viet Corner, Balham+

Foley's, Fitzrovia

Tongi, Balham

Nobu, Shoreditch

Sophie's, Soho

The Eastern Eye, Brick Lane

Made in Italy, Clapham Junction+

Chez Jules, Edinburgh

Morton's Bistro, Gilmorton

No 29 Power Station West, Battersea

Rondo, Holborn+

Taberna da Baixa, Lisbon

Ponto Final, Lisbon

Sacramento, Lisbon

El Deseo, Ibiza

Cottons, Ibiza

La Bodega, Ibiza

Smoke & Salt, Tooting

Antica Trattoria della Pesa, Milan

The FisherMan Pasta, Milan

Baobab Organic Burger, Milan

La Casa Iberica, Milan

Felice a Testaccio, Milan

Osteria del Proconsolo, Florence

I' Girone De' Ghiotti, Florence

Entoca Pitti Gola e Cantina, Florence

Fooderia, Manarola

Il Porticciolo, Manarola

Nessun Dorma, Manarola

Ananasso Bar, Vernazza

Ristorante La Torre, Vernazza

Boisdale, Belgravia

Oakhill, Matlock

Caraffini, Chelsea

Coal Office Restaurant, King's Cross

Thai Night @ Milk, Balham

Canto Corvino, Spitalfields+

The Royal Oak, Gretton+

Wild Oven, Stanway House (my wedding!)

The Back Garden @ Dormy House, Broadway

La Cave, Annecy

Bon Pain Bon Vin, Annecy

Bleu 1801, Annecy

Côté Jardin @ La Maison Bleue, Annecy

La Table de Yoann Conte (**), Annecy

Pane Cunzato, Holborn

Lao Cafe, Covent Garden

Galata Art Smyrna Restaurant Cafe, Istanbul

Antakya Kebap asmalı, Istanbul

Tarihi Eminönü Dürümcüsü, Istanbul

Bilice Kebap, Istanbul

Cafe Privato Restaurant, Istanbul

Asmalı Mescit Dürümcü, Istanbul

Pandeli, Istanbul

Galata Kitchen, Istanbul

Muutto, Istanbul

Yöremiz Pide Lahmacun, Istanbul

Cappadocian Cuisine, Goreme

Wood Fire Barbeque, Goreme

Paket Kiymali Salonu, Ihlara

Beydilli Kebap Barbeque, Goreme

Yeşil Vadi Göreme Şubesi, Goreme

Kale Terrasse Restaurant, Goreme

Le Relais de Venise l'Entrecôte, City

Juliet's, Tooting

Forza Win, Camberwell

The Ginger Fox, Hassocks 

Shack Fuyu, Soho+

Noizé, Fitzrovia (x2)

Socius, Burnham Market+

The Brisley Bell, Brisley

Forza Wine @ NT, South Bank

Yuu Kitchen, Shoreditch

Circolo Popolare, Fitzrovia

Obica, Soho

Forza Wine, Peckham

Pachamama East, Shoreditch

Master Wei Xi’An, Holborn

podcasts

The Ricky Gervais Show (XFM)+

The Russell Brand Show (Radio 2)+

The Always Sunny Podcast+

The Adam Buxton Podcast+

Kermode & Mayo’s Take+

Books and Authors+

Literary Friction+

The New Statesman Podcast+

The Rest is Politics+

A Very British Cult

How I Built This+

The Prospect Podcast

Working It+

The News Agents

The News Meeting

Today in Focus+

The Slow Newscast+

Law in Action+

A Long Time in Finance+

The Lawyer Podcast+

Young Again

tv

The White Lotus (series 2)

Severance (series 1)

Succession (series 4)

The Bear (series 1)

The Bear (series 2)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (series 16)

Beckham (limited series)

Boiling Point (series 1)

Top Boy (series 1)

Top Boy (series 2)

Top Boy (series 3)

Top Boy: Summerhouse (series 1)

Top Boy: Summerhouse (series 2)

talks

David Nicholls, Backstory

foreign travel (no 'favourites of the year', all excellent)

Edinburgh

Lisbon

Ibiza

Italy (Milan, Bellagio, Santa Margherita Ligure, Cinque Terra, Tuscany)

Lake Annecy

Turkey (Istanbul, Cappadocia)

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2022

key

bold = highlight of 2022

+ = not new in 2022

# = book club

books

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)#

Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes (1984)

Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney (2021)

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Georges Perec (trans. Marc Lowenthal) (1975)

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (1963)#

A Poor Collector's Guide to Buying Great Art, Erling Kagge (2015)

Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout (2021)

Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Geert Mak (trans. Philipp Blom) (1995)

Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys (1934)

The Shipping News, Annie Proulx (1993)

We Are Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins (2021)#

How to be Both, Ali Smith (2014)#

Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann (trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter) (1901)

Playing to the Gallery, Grayson Perry (2014)

The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2012) 

Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (2016)#

The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal, Duncan Mavin (2021)

The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2002)#

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin (2022)#

Lost Cat, Mary Gaitskill (2020)

audiobooks †

Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe (2021)

Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)

A Journey, Tony Blair (2010)

Range: How Generalists Thrive in a Specialised World, David Epstein (2019) (un-finished: one of the many of this sort of book which would have been fine as an 800-word article)

Theroux the Keyhole, Louis Theroux (2021)

films

The Blind Side (2009)

The Lost Daughter (2021)

Boiling Point (2022)

'71 (2014)

Big Night (1996)

24 Hour Party People (2002)

Nomadland (2020)

Licorice Pizza (2021)

Rushmore (1998)

Clueless (1995)

À Bout de Souffle (1960)

Censor (2021)

Local Hero (1983)

Us (2019)+

The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)

A Beautiful Mind (2002)

A Single Man (2006)

Sicario (2015)+

L.A. Confidential (1997)

The Hand of God (2021)

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Riders of Justice (2020)

Amelie (2001)

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

The Hunt (2012)

Jackie Brown (1997)

Dating Amber (2020)

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

The Phantom of the Open (2021)

albums

'After the Gold Rush', Neil Young (1970)

'Kid A', Radiohead (2000)

'First Steps of Letting Go', Luka (2020)+

'A Common Turn', Anna B Savage (2021)

'Blue Weekend', Wolf Alice (2021)

'Jubilee', Japanese Breakfast (2021)

'My Love is Cool', Wolf Alice (2015)

'Melodrama', Lorde (2017)

'Friends That Break Your Heart', James Blake (2021)

'Super Monster', Claud (2021)

'What's Going On', Marvin Gaye (1971)

'DAMN.', Kendrick Lamar (2017)

'The Dream', Alt-J (2022)

'Wet Leg', Wet Leg (2022)

'The Velvet Underground and Nico', The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)

'Punisher', Phoebe Bridgers (2020)

'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers', Kendrick Lamar (2022)

'Raw Data Feel', Everything Everything (2022)

'A Light For Attracting Attention', The Smile (2022)

'1992-2012: The Anthology', Underworld (2014)

'The Overload', Yard Act (2022)

'Tezeta', Hailu Mergia (2021)

'Prioritise Pleasure', Self Esteem (2021)

'Skin', Joy Crookes (2021)

'Actual Life 3', Fred Again (2022)

'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert', Little Simz (2021)

'The Car', Arctic Monkeys (2022)

'NO THANK YOU', Little Simz (2022)

'And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow', Weyes Blood (2022)

exhibitions

'Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now', Tate Britain

'Van Gogh's Masterpieces', Van Gogh Museum

‘The Potato Eaters. Mistake or Masterpiece?’, Van Gogh Museum

'Jonathas de Andrade: Staging Resistance', Foam

'Liz Johnson Artur: of life of love of sex of movement of hope', Foam

'Constant 101: The Future can be Humane', Cobra Museum of Modern Art

'Guido van der Werve', Cobra Museum of Modern Art

'Clandestine – The Human Body in Focus', Cobra Museum of Modern Art

'Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive', Stedelijk Museum

'Everyday, Someday, And Other Stories. Collection 1950-1980', Stedelijk Museum

'The Highlights', Rijksmuseum

live music

Samfire / Alessia & the Crazycats, The Bedford

Alt-J, Brixton Academy

Michael Kiwanuke, Brixton Academy

The Smile, The Roundhouse

Gala, Peckham Rye Park

Wilderness Festival, Cornbury

theatre

Hamiton, Victoria Palace Theatre

restaurants

DF Tacos, Brixton

The Joint, Brixton

Wesley House, Winchcombe

Victoria Inn, Holkham

Socius, Burnham Market+ (x2)

Restaurant Watergang, Amsterdam (x3)

NENI, Amsterdam

Bar Bonnie, Amsterdam

De Kas (*), Amsterdam+ (x2)

Bussia, Amsterdam+

Fuoco Vivo, Amsterdam

De Belhamel, Amsterdam

Bar Pif, Amsterdam

Rijsel, Amsterdam

o bistro, Amsterdam

Kasbah Bab Ourika, Ourika Valley+ (x6)

Comptoir Darna, Marrakesh+

Limoni, Marrakesh+

Bancone Golden Square, Soho

NOPI, Soho

Niche, Islington

The Oyster Shack, Bigbury

Wild Artichokes, Kingsbridge

Ottolenghi, Spitalfields (x2)

Curry Leaf, Clapham Junction

Trinity (*), Clapham Old Town

Xi'an Biang Biang Noodles, Shoreditch

Andrew Edmunds, Soho

Morito, Hackney

180 House, The Strand

Le Petit Marché, Paris+

Le Saint-Sébastien, Paris

The Wolseley, Mayfair

Brat x Climpson's Arch, London Fields

Osteria del Teatro, Cortona

Blacklock, Shoreditch

Apothecary East, Shoreditch

Bistrot Union, Clapham

Medlar, Chelsea

Viet Corner, Balham

Childswickham Inn and Brasserie, Cotswolds

Hutong, Borough

Fenn, Fulham

Chez Bruce (*), Wandsworth

Ivy Brasserie, Victoria

podcasts

The Always Sunny Podcast+

The Adam Buxton Podcast+

Kermode & Mayo's Take

Books and Authors+

Literary Friction+

The New Statesman Podcast+

The Rest is Politics

The Prospect Podcast

Working It

Today in Focus+

The Slow Newscast

The Modern House Podcast+

Law in Action

A Long Time in Finance

The Lawyer Podcast

The Coming Storm

Alan Partridge: From The Oasthouse

foreign travel (no 'favourites of the year', all excellent)

Amsterdam

Morocco (Marrakech, Ourika Valley)

Paris

Tuscany

† I had never really listened to audiobooks before - or ‘read with my ears’, as the hosts of Literary Friction call it.  But my growing pile of unread weighty non-fiction books was depressing proof that, after days of reading legal documents, I usually reach for fiction to ‘read with my eyes’.  To counter this, I got an Audible subscription, and replaced some of my podcast listening with audiobooks.

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books 2017-2021

2017

A View from the Foothills, Chris Mullin (2009)

The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes (2016)

The End of the Party, Andrew Rawnsley (2010)

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Laurie Lee (1969)

2018

A Death in the Family, Karl Ove Knausgård (2013)

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Julian Barnes (1989)

Never Mind, Edward St Aubyn (2012)

Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor (2017)

In Love, Alfred Hayes (1953)

Autumn, Ali Smith (2016)

Educated, Tara Westover (2018)

The Children Act, Ian McEwan (2014)

The Only Story, Julian Barnes (2018)

Bad News, Edward St Aubyn (2012)

On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan (2007)

The Power, Naomi Alderman (2016)

Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney (2017)

Swimming Home, Deborah Levy (2011)

Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (1998)

Less, Andrew Sean Greer (2017)

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata (2018)

Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker (1962)

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (2017)

The Swimming Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst (1988)

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)~

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)#

This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay (2017)

Normal People, Sally Rooney (2018)#

Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday (2018)

2019

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1958)#

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott (2016)

Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2004)#

Outline, Rachel Cusk (2014)

Florida, Lauren Groff (2018)

The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara (2013)#

Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy (2018)

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris (2018)#

Ordinary People, Diana Evans (2019)

The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima (1999)

The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (1966)#

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, Joel Golby (2019)

Love, Nina: Dispatches from Family Life, Nina Stibbe (2013)

On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)

The World According to Garp, John Irving (1978)#

Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys (1939)

Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985)

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)#

Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker (2017)

This is Pleasure, Mary Gaitskill (2019)

Some Hope, Edward St Aubyn (2012)

Mr Salary, Sally Rooney (2019)

2020

We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014)

Three Women, Lisa Taddeo (2019)#

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, Adam Kay (2019)

The Future of Capitalism, Paul Collier (2018)

South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami (1999)#

Smile Please, Jean Rhys (1979)

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson (2015)#

Reunion, Fred Uhlman (1971)

Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry (2019)

A Little Life, Haniya Yanagihara (2015)

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1955)#

Boomerang, Michael Lewis (2012)#

Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan (2020)

An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (2018)#

Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick (2010)

Calypso, David Sedaris (2018)#

Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)

Any Human Heart, William Boyd (2002)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion (1968)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)#

Lullaby, Leïla Slimani (2016)#

Summerwater, Sarah Moss (2020)

Intimations, Zadie Smith (2020)

The Appointment, Katharina Volckmer (2020)

Brighton Rock, Graham Greene (1938)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1831)#

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken (2018)

The Order of the Day, Eric Vuillard (2017)

2021

I'm Afraid of Men, Vivek Shraya (2018)#

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)

Why We Get the Wrong Politicians, Isabel Hardman (2018)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carre (1963)#

Emma, Jane Austen (1815)

News of the World: A Novel, Paulette Jiles (2016)#

Transit, Rachel Cusk (2018)

Good Behaviour, Molly Keane (1981)#

Deep Work, Cal Newport (2016)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (1984)#

We Are All Birds of Uganda, Hafsa Zayyan (2021)

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (1970)

Dead Souls, Sam Riviere (2021)

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (2020)#

Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton (1941)

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (2012)

The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis (1973)

Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason (2021)

Kudos, Rachel Cusk (2018)

Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (2019)#

How to Write a Novel in 6 Months, Thomas Emson (2020)

Writing a Novel, Richard Skinner (2018)

Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent, Emily Chappell (2019)#

Arbitration: A Very Short Introduction, Thomas Schultz and Thomas Grant (2021)

No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute, Lauren Elkin (2021)

Metroland, Julian Barnes (1980)