Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 17
2022 Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (My Review) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn’t pan out.
2023 Tremor by Teju Cole
A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speaks out from a pulsing metropolis.
- Winner of The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award
2023 The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell (UK)
A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other.
- Short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize
- Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
2023 Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam (UK)
In 1920s Edinburgh, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class housewife living the life she’s always expected―until her husband, Robert, upends everything with a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead.
2025 A Very Fine Place: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Julia Winter
- Calcutta. Fitzwilliam Darcy of His Majesty’s War and Colonial Office is stewing in the humid heat, when word comes that his father is dead. He must return to England immediately to take up his inheritance.
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