Short stories by Margaret Atwood, a thriller from a Booker Prize winner, and an interrogation of our cultural obsession with true crime are among our favourite new books.
Nell recalls various moments in the couple's relationship when they might have needed first aid: the camping trip where they could have been attacked by a bear, a kitchen knife accident, an almost-crash. She asks, "Had they really been that careless, that oblivious?" We realise that this is a story about grief. Tig is gone.
Irish writer Sebastian Barry creates novels from family stories and fragments. His nine most recent novels feature Dunnes and McNultys — fictional versions of real people who are grappling with Ireland's complicated past and its politics, its wars and uprisings, famines and reprisals; coping with migration across the seas in boats filled with terror and hope.
The story splinters as Tom begins to see things that aren't there. We're privy to his memories and his imaginings; we see how his trauma seems to distort the very air and light around him, creating mirages that he can't distinguish from reality. The latest literary thriller from 2013 Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton revolves around the titular collective, which cultivates land on the sly — planting crops and hoping landowners won't notice. In the novel's opening stretch, the group's unofficial leader, self-styled anarchist Mira Bunting, sets her sights on a big prize – a large farm belonging to the recently knighted Sir Owen Darvish and his wife.
When members of the collective move to the Darvish land and begin gardening, eventually all the characters' paths cross.
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