The Bibliophile's Compass

Title : Life After Life Author : Kate Atkinson Publication Year: 2013 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 622 Source : Book Genre : literary fiction, historical fiction, speculative fiction, Postmodern Awards : Winner of the 2013 Costa Book Award; Shortlisted for the 2013 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Walter Scott Prize (2014), Waterstones Book of the Year (2013); Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal (2014) Opening Sentence: November 1930. A FUG OF tobacco smoke and damp clammy air hit her as she entered the café. She had come in from the rain and drops of water still trembled like delicate dew on the fur coats of some of the women inside. A regiment of white-aproned waiters rushed around at tempo, serving the needs of the Münchner at leisure – coffee, cake and gossip. How often do you come across a novel where both the writing style and the story are truly captivating? This is one of those rare books with an unusual premise that draws you in. While some might cat...

   Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh ℹ️  Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. (Goodreads) 🏆 Awards 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (longlisted) 2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards (finalist) 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist) 2016 Man Booker Prize (shortlisted) 2016 Crime Writers' Association Awards (shortlisted) 2016 Gordon Burn Prize (shortlisted) 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (won) 2017 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize (longlisted) The Green Road by Anne Enright ℹ️ The novel concerns the lives of the Madigan family - four children and their moth...