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• Brat

  a Novel

  Smith, Gabriel

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  Is 2024 the year of the Brat? The Charli XCX album, the Andrew McCarthy Brat Pack doco and this book say Yes. This is a novel that sounds intriguing - but I confess once again it was its cover that caught my eye. "BRAT is everything I love…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Intermezzo

  Rooney, Sally

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  It's Sally Rooney, I'm going to read it regardless of reviews and summaries.

• Asa

  the Girl Who Turned Into a Pair of Chopsticks

  Imamura, Natsuko, 1980-

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  The cover and title caught my eye for this one. It's a short audiobook, only four hours and sounds as much fairy story as fiction.

• Unreel

  a Memoir Also Published With Subtitle: A Life in Review

  Wichtel, Diana, 1950-

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  Diana Wichtel is one of New Zealand's greatest reviewers. "This is a sharply funny, wise and profound memoir of growing up and becoming a writer, of parents and children, early marriage and divorce, finding love again . . . and of the box…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Eyes Are the Best Part

  Kim, Monika

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  The cover! The cover! and I've seen another version of the cover which is equally terrifying. Erewhon books describes this as Crying in H-Mart meets My sister, the serial killer. That sounds impossible, and wild.

• Little Rot

  Emezi, Akwaeke

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  "Nigerian writer, Akwaeke Emezi, while announcing the book on their X page, describes it as an “absolutely unhinged story set in the underbelly of a Nigerian city”. It tells the story of five friends who become entangled in a web of sex,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was a Teenage Slasher

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  "From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix." I went on a massive Grady Hendrix kick, and have read all of his books - so…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Friday Afternoon Club

  a Family Memoir

  Dunne, Griffin, 1955-

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  Gotta love a gossipy juicy memoir: "Much of “The Friday Afternoon Club” is a privileged young man’s search for a place in the showbiz court to which he was born: prep school harassment; going to jail after shoplifting from an A.&P.;…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm F*cking Amazing

  Warden, Anoushka

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  Another one that hooked me with cover (and title). Kirkus Reviews says "Think Carrie Bradshaw meets Bridget Jones on cocaine".

• From Here to the Great Unknown

  Presley, Lisa Marie

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  "Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough. In 2022, Lisa Marie…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Alternatives

  Hughes, Caoilinn, 1985-

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  S. Kirk Walsh in the New York Times gives this a great review and calls it an exuberant "bold, beautiful, complex novel". It's about sisters and sounds like something I'd be in to.

• Psykhe

  Forsyth, Kate, 1966-

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  I am intrigued by books that dip into classical mythology. ""Psykhe is a reimaging of the ancient myth of Eros and Psykhe, a story of a young women who was so 'strangely and wonderfully fair' that people began to worship her as a living…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Private Rites

  Armfield, Julia

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  "Dystopias in fiction are two-a-penny these days, so if you’re going to give your novel a hellish setting, you’d better make it a memorable one. Julia Armfield does so in her second novel Private Rites. Others in our climate-struck era…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Used to Live Here

  a Novel

  Kliewer, Marcus

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  This one has been made into a Netflix movie, and yes another horror that has caught my eye: "Kliewer’s original and extremely scary story gathers elements inspired by authors like Shirley Jackson and classic horror films including Invasion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beyoncé and the Clothes She Wears

  Newman, Terry (Fashion journalist)

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  This series by Terry Newman is consistently great - the Rihanna one is off the chain.

• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

  Wellington Street Art

  Baird, Jaimie D. (Jaimie Donald), 1952-

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  Always keen to look at street art, this one looks into the Wellington works.

• Self-esteem and the End of the World

  Healy, Luke

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  "For over ten years, Luke Healy invested all of his self-esteem into his career as a graphic novelist. Then, overnight, his career just vanished. Spiralling, and left without a purpose, he searches for identity in self-help books,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hooray, Hooray, It's Library Day!

  Grasso, Julie Anne

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  A cute picture book about going to the library? Yes please and Thank you.

• Nobody's empire by Stuart Murdoch (to be published October 2024)

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  I am looking forward to the debut novel of Belle and Sebastian's singer and songwriter - Stuart Murdoch has always had an astonishing way with words and storytelling.

• The Royal Free by Carl Shuker (to be published November 2024)

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  Equal parts workplace comedy, home invasion thriller and literary conundrum, The Royal Free is an exuberant, dark, wildly entertaining novel about death and copy editing – by the author of the acclaimed A Mistake.