Lily's Book Recommendations
Recommendations15th February 2024
Booksellers On the Beach
We asked our Website Coordinator, Lily, what her favourite recent reads were. Here’s her #BooksellersOnTheBeach selection and what she had to say about them! 🌊
Your Utopia
Published: 13th Feb '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £14.99
Rapture's Road
Published: 11th Jan '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £12.99
Orientalism
Published: 28th Aug '03
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
Minor Detail
Published: 6th May '20
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
Demon Copperhead
Published: 4th May '23
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Blackouts
I loved the playful use of form and intertextuality in Blackouts. Torres uses these innovations to explore the erasures suffered by the queer community, and how queer history often has to be pieced together from small fragments and created anew. The result of Torres’ playful structure of loosely connected vignettes is a dreamlike narrative that is something akin to a novel, but not quite as straightforward.
Lily
Published: 2nd Nov '23
Format: Hardback
Price: £14.99
My Work
My Work is a novel that explores the disparity between the work of motherhood and the work of writing. Ravn's blend of intertextuality and formal innovations lends the book a creativity and nuance which matches its subject matter, resulting in a deeply layered text that is playful, reflective, and thoughtful.
Lily
Published: 1st Sep '23
Format: Hardback
Price: £16.99
Kairos
I had not encountered the work of Jenny Erpenbeck until recently but I can now say I’m a fan after reading Kairos, a deeply intimate account of an affair between an older man and a younger woman in Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin wall. Erpenbeck’s writing is devastating in its frankness, and her ability to connect the intimacies of a romantic affair with the history of Germany is astounding. This is a book that will stay with me for a long time to come.
Lily
Published: 11th Apr '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Jungle House
I found Jungle House an utterly compelling and deeply atmospheric read. Julianne Pachico juxtaposes the looming threat of artificial intelligence against indigenous communities and the natural landscape to explore themes of motherhood, family and grief. Pachico has crafted a strange, futuristic fairy tale with ominous, foreboding undertones - highly recommend.
Lily
Published: 2nd Nov '23
Format: Hardback
Price: £14.99