Some big literary names returned with new works in September including Anne Enright, Emma Donaghue and Naomi Klein. Here are our top picks to dive into.
abc.net.au/news/best-new-books-september-2023-anne-enright-emma-donoghue/102908990Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange, and critics Declan Fry and Cher Tan.
No one writes a dysfunctional family quite like Anne Enright. The Irish author has spent a career examining complicated relationships in novels including The Forgotten Waltz, The Green Road, Actress and the 2007 Booker Prize winner, The Gathering.The youngest is Nell, a millennial free spirit whose dreams of wild romance lead her into a dangerous relationship with a cruel man.
These are complicated characters. They love each other intensely but the way they show that love can be cruel and confused. Anne Enright is in top form here — writing with sharpness, wit and emotional honesty. You'll be hooked. CN"It's a good moment to speak loud and clear in a mainstream-published book about queer teenagers and the timeless aspects of their love," Donoghue told PinkNews.
Donoghue writes scholarly non-fiction as well as fiction, often based on historical research or real events. The Wonder explored religious starvation; Haven took us to seventh-century Ireland; while her acclaimed novel Room drew on the terrible events of the Fritzl case to explore the lives of a woman and her child held captive.
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