![]() ![]() Otherwise, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (Faber, £8.99) is the voice of a new generation Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury, £8.99), re-casting Antigone among British Muslims, won this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (HarperCollins, £8.99) has deservedly sold 470,000 copies, so soothing are its routines. ![]() His other collections include Hits and Misses, Spoiled Brats, and Ant Farm. I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. About the author (2012) Simon Rich has written for 'Saturday Night Live,' Pixar, and 'The Simpsons.' He is the creator and showrunner of 'Man Seeking Woman' (FXX) and 'Miracle Workers,' (TBS), which he based on his books. And not to forget all those marvellous new Penguin translations of Georges Simenon’s Maigret novels - plenty for an all-Maigret holiday - and also Simenon’s quite different and seriously good “romans durs”, such as The Krull House (Penguin Classics, £10.99).įor a novel stretching the limits of the form, don’t miss Kudos by Rachel Cusk (Faber, £16.99), completing her trilogy of “auto-fiction”: a series of people reveal themselves while the author remains a kind of negative space, exposing them ruthlessly. The Last Girlfriend on Earth, p.23, Profile Books. And no one had more faith in God than he did. Otherwise, our crime reviewer Mark Sanderson recommends Bloody January by Alan Parks (Canongate, £12.99), Glaswegian noir Robicheaux: You Know My Name by James Lee Burke (Orion, £8.99), Louisiana baroque and London Rules by Mick Herron (Murray, £12.99), MI5 misfits. Now, there was a righteous Hebrew in the land of Uz named Job. Every holiday needs a good thriller: if you haven’t yet caught up with this, one of Lee Child’s best, on the theme of opioid addiction, here it is. Rich has adapted his book into Miracle Workers, a seven-part miniseries airing on TBS that keeps all the specific humor and grounded settings of its source material. ![]() The Midnight Line by Lee Child (Bantam, £7.99). Daily Shouts Learning the Ropes By Simon Rich FebruIllustrations by Faye Moorhouse I am me own master and commander. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT Reception was favorable, with The Washington Post praising the book as hilarious, declaring, it just might be the best one-night stand youll ever have. ![]()
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