April 18, 2022
by Team Riverside
Elif Shafak – The Island of The Missing Trees
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Stanley Tucci – Taste
Ali Smith – Companion Piece
Douglas Stuart – Young Mungo
Bella Mackie – How To Kill Your Family
Patrick Radden Keefe – Empire of Pain
Michael Lewis – The Premonition
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Adam Hargreaves – Mr. Men in London
Eliot Higgins – We Are Bellingcat
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Mary Lawson – A Town Solace
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April 2, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Kae Tempest – On Connection
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Marion Billet – Busy London
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
Colm Toibin – The Magician
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Matthew Green – Shadowlands
Daisy Buchanan – Careering
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Agatha Christie – Miss Marple and Mystery
Michael Lewis – The Premonition
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March 20, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Catherine Belton – Putin’s People
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Marion Billet – Busy London
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Tom Burgis – Kleptopia
John Preston – Fall
Eliot Higgins – We Are Bellingcat
Charlotte Mendelson – The Exhibitionist
Kotaro Isaka – Bullet Train
Tim Marshal – The Power of Geography
Rebecca F. John – Fannie
David Baddiel – Jews Don’t Count
Siobhan Dowd – The London Eye Mystery
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March 13, 2022
by Team Riverside
Fitzcarraldo Editions, £9.99 paperback, out now
Cold Enough for Snow is a startling and subtle mediation on family and belonging from the winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Novel Prize. It is incredibly vivid and sensuous but it is also a gentle read, Au takes us movingly through different scenes, unhurried by plot. At times it’s reminiscent of a series of anecdotes, scenes from the life of the narrator and the narrator’s family are strung together through the conversations between mother and daughter as they wander through Tokyo, eating dinner, visiting tourist attractions. The prose radiates quiet beauty, every detail from the weather to the food that they eat is realised in precise detail. I highly recommend this novel for fans of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti.
Review by Phoebe
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March 11, 2022
by Team Riverside
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Colm Toibin – The Magician
Margaret Atwood – Burning Questions
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Patrick Radden Keefe – Empire of Pain
Natasha Lunn – Conversations on Love
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Georgia Pritchett – My Mess is a Bit of a Life
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Adam Rutherford – Control
Michelle Zauner – Crying in H Mart
Victoria Mas – The Mad Woman’s Ball
Coco Mellors – Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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March 4, 2022
by Team Riverside
Tim Marshall – The Power of Geography
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
Patrick Radden Keefe – Empire of Pain
Karen McManus – One Of Us is Lying
David Baddiel – Jews Don’t Count
Gertrude Stein – Food
bell hooks – All About Love
John Preston – Fall
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
Natasha Lunn – Conversations On Love
Marian Keyes – Rachel’s Holiday
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
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February 25, 2022
by Team Riverside
Natasha Lunn – Conversations On Love
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
John Preston – Fall
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
Marian Keyes – Again, Rachel
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Hanya Yanigahara – A Little Life
Cho Nam-Joo – Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Marion Billet – Busy London
Adam Kay – This Is Going To Hurt
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February 13, 2022
by Team Riverside
Paperback, Verso £10.99 Out Now
Isa and her best friend Gala arrive in New York in the Summer of 2013 with a mission in mind, to have as much fun as possible. They recall the heroines of golden age Hollywood; in another era they could be Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Isa and Gala’s literary ancestors might have treated this scene as a marriage market, but the novel is free of commitment, although not without romantic entanglements and their consequences. Isa and Gala’s friendship is the most important relationship in the novel, their friendship is loving but not idyllic, Isa more than once refers to it as a ‘marriage’ with all the history and tensions that go along with that description. Clothes are a secondary, yet crucially important romance, work is something to be avoided where possible and ambition a laughable fancy.
Happy Hour dispels the myth that glamour is analogous to wealth, Isa and Gala are permanently down on their luck, scraping a living by selling clothes on a vintage stall and taking ad hoc modelling and babysitting jobs. In spite of this, they manage to mainly have a fabulous time, only an uncomfortable jaunt to the Hamptons is enough to show Isa that the fair might be coming to an end.
Granados turns sharp and witty prose to great affect here. I would highly recommend Happy Hour for anyone seeking an intelligent but fun read in the mode of Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker or Nora Ephron.
Review by Phoebe
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February 5, 2022
by Team Riverside
Natasha Lunn – Conversations on Love
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
Tim Marshall – The Power of Geography
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Maurice Sendak – Where The Wild Things Are
Charles Dickens – The Great Winglebury Duel
John Preston – Fall
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Open Water
Claire Fuller – Unsettled Ground
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Francis Spufford – Light Perpetual
Tom Chivers – London Clay
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February 1, 2022
by Team Riverside
Paperback, Metro, £11.99, Publisher
The pocket-sized London’s Hidden Walks series is well researched and handy. The latest addition, subtitled Every Street Has a Story to Tell, is a genial and inspiring guide to some hidden London treasures.
Who knew that the Spanish Civil War memorial was right next to Fulham Palace? Or that the cabman’s shelter in Pimlico, a small green wooden hut serving refreshments, is one of the sole survivors of more than sixty such? History, architecture, art, literature and generally bizarre things all feature.
South London is especially well represented here, with Clapham, Peckham and Tooting all featuring. Even in areas I know very well, I’ve learnt to look for some surviving gems because of this book.
Nicely illustrated with quirky photos and useful maps, this is a pleasure to read before you set out, as well as providing suggestions for good restaurants, pubs, and shops on the routes. The inclusion of notable ghost signs is especially welcome (I used to like the Barlow and Roberts ghost sign on Southwark Street near here, but it seems to be gone now – https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/10/barlow-roberts/). This book encourages us to look up: there is often something interesting up there.
Review by Bethan
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January 21, 2022
by Team Riverside
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
John Preston – Fall
Hanya Yanagihara – To Paradise
Stephen Millar – Londons Hidden Walks
Sasha Dugdale – Ten Poems About Walking
Stanley Tucci – Taste
Frank Tallis – The Act of Living
Nan Shepherd – The Living Mountain
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Joan Aiken – Arabel and Mortimer Stories
Claire Fuller – Unsettled Ground
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
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January 14, 2022
by Team Riverside
Hanya Yanagihara – To Paradise
John Preston – Fall
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Claire Fuller – Unsettled Ground
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Lucy Caldwell – Intimacies
Claire Keegan – Small Things Like These
Nan Shepherd – The Living Mountain
Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain
Raven Leilani – Luster
Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Wendy Kendall – My Little Garden
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January 8, 2022
by Team Riverside
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Sathnam Sanghera – Empireland
John Le Carre – Silverview
Frank Herbert – Dune
Qian Julie Wang – Beautiful Country
Marit Kapla – Osebol
Bernadine Evaristo – Manifesto
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Marion Billett – Busy London
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Katherine Mansfield – Prelude & Other Stories
Tim Marshall – The Power of Geography
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Isabel Waidner – Sterling Karat Gold
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January 4, 2022
by Team Riverside
Hardback, Hoxton Mini Press, £22.95, out now
Did you know that Fortnum and Mason’s was started by one of Queen Anne’s footmen, who had a side business flogging off used candle wax from the queen’s household? Or that the wooden flooring in Liberty’s department store is from a nineteenth century warship? These are the kind of excellent nuggets that feature alongside engaging photos in this beautiful coffee table book (see some of the photos here https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/pre-order-london-shopfronts).
I was delighted to see good representation of bookshops (shout out to colleagues at Marchpane and John Sandoe) alongside famous London shops such as the old-school art emporium L Cornelisson and the legendary Beigel Bake on Brick Lane. Many of the entries include an update on how the businesses have managed during the pandemic, reminding us that some are small independent and/or family companies. SE1 is well represented too, with the famous M Manze pie and mash shop and Terry’s Cafe.
Some of those working in the shops tell us why they love it, including Guido Gessaroli of the Coffee Run in the Seven Sisters Road: “This is the London I came here for… Diverse, multicultural, a friendly neighbourhood. The area is sometimes considered a bit shabby, but to me it feels real and down to earth”.
Most places included were new to me, and this book made me want to eat and shop my way around London purely to visit them. I’d love it if the next edition had a map of sites so that you could arrange walking tours between the places.
The shop fronts and interiors that have been preserved are especially valuable, and are my favourite things in the book. New designs that are clearly intended to lift the hearts of anyone even walking down the street are delightful too (Saint Aymes and Mira Mikati, I mean you). Plot your London days out now, and use this jolly book to do it.
Review by Bethan
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January 3, 2022
by Team Riverside
Hardback, Melville House Publishing, £18.99, out now
Snow falls as the scientist Robert Hooke and his former assistant Harry Hunt are called to a child’s body which has been found on the Fleet riverbank. The body has been drained of blood. The city of London in 1678 is febrile with anti-Catholic feeling and the shadows of the recent civil war are all around.
This is an excellent historical mystery, and much of the action takes place around where the Riverside Bookshop now is. London Bridge, Southwark, the Monument, Bishopsgate, Westminster… for anyone who knows this area well, The Bloodless Boy will take you through areas at once familiar and strange. In Whitechapel market, “Black powder from hundreds of chimneys and from the fires, braziers and stoves set up to keep the traders warm, dusted the hard, refrozen snow”.
It is like C J Sansom’s Shardlake series, combining a compelling mystery with detailed research that’s lightly worn, and featuring some real-life characters (in this case John Locke and King Charles II as well as Hooke).
It is clear that Lloyd has expertise in the history of science and the history of ideas. I knew I was going to enjoy the book when it opened with a cast list of characters including a fanatic, an assassin, and one who is both “a clergyman, and perjurer”.
Originally published in 2013 and reprinted now in a gorgeous hardback edition, The Bloodless Boy has won praise quotes from Lee Child, Andrew Taylor and Christopher Fowler among others.
A great London book and a gripping and pacy story. Recommended.
Review by Bethan
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December 31, 2021
by Team Riverside
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad – Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
Michaela Coel – Misfits
Frank Herbert – Dune
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Kate Ellis eds. – Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize Longlist
Richard Osman – The Man Who Died Twice
Jessica Harrison eds. – The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
Sally Rooney – Conversations With Friends
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Maggie Shipstead – Great Circle
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Clare Chambers – Small Pleasures
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
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December 11, 2021
by Team Riverside
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Frank Herbert – Dune
Hannah Jane Parkinson – The Joy of Small Things
Stanley Tucci – Taste
Michaela Coel – Misfits
John Banville – Snow
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Marion Billet – Busy London
Marion Billet – Busy London at Christmas
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December 8, 2021
by Team Riverside
Hardback, Hoxton Mini Press, £16.95, out now
London in the Snow is not only about the humans. There are elephants with shovels, camels looking a bit chilly, and pigeons making the best of it.
This charming small hardback photo book has a good range of black and white images from the 1900s to the 1960s, and they are not just the usual subjects (for a sample of the images, see (https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/london-in-the-snow-book-10-vintage-britain). There are parks and zoos, synagogues and cathedrals, streets and schools, canals and the river. I like that there are diverse images from a diverse city. My favourite photo is a young Sikh man in 1900 tobogganing with the intensity of a champion. This is a well edited and entertaining selection.
Snow is unusual enough in London that Londoners still react in a variety of ways when it falls. We might run wild in the park or steer clear of a deserted Oxford Street. We might valiantly keep working in freezing conditions, or skate across a frozen pond to usher swans towards open water like a woman in this book (perhaps).
We love the Opinionated Guide series from this independent press (see https://riversidebookshop.co.uk/2021/07/12/london-green-spaces-by-harry-ades/). This latest book in the Vintage Britain series is as beautifully made as its predecessors, and would make a cheerful gift.
Review by Bethan
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December 5, 2021
by Team Riverside
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Frank Herbert – Dune
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Richard Osman – The Man Who Died Twice
eds. Jessica Harrison – The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Sosuke Natsukawa – The Cat Who Saved Books
Merlin Sheldrake – Entangled Life
Shirley Jackson – The Missing Girl
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche – Notes on Grief
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November 27, 2021
by Team Riverside
Frank Herbert – Dune
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird
Jessica Harrison eds – The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Sosuke Natsukawa – The Cat Who Saved Books
Sarah Moss – The Fell
Noor Murad, Yotam Ottolenghi – Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
Elena Ferrante – The Lying Life of Adults
John Le Carre – Silverview
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Merlin Sheldrake – Entangled Life
Amor Towles – The Lincoln Highway
Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
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November 21, 2021
by Team Riverside
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Elizabeth Strout – Oh William!
John Banville – Snow
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Noor Murad and Yotam Ottolenghi – Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird
Stanley Tucci – Taste: My Life Through Food
John Le Carre – Silverview
Frank Herbert – Dune
Nora Ephron – Heartburn
Rutger Bregman – Humankind: A Hopeful History
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
Charlie Macksey – The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
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November 13, 2021
by Team Riverside
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Damon Galgut – The Promise
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Susanna Clarke – Piranesi
Frank Herbert – Dune
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Florence Given – Women Don’t Owe You Pretty
Stanley Tucci – Taste: My Life Through Food
Sosuke Natsukawa – The Cat Who Saved Books
Tim Marshall – The Power of Geography
Various Authors – A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales For a Nordic Noel
Nigel Slater – A Cook’s Book
George Orwell – 1984
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October 30, 2021
by Team Riverside
Frank Herbert – Dune
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Various Authors – A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales For a Nordic Noel
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
John Preston – Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
Jonathon Franzen – Crossroads
Lea Ypi – Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Sosuke Natsukawa – The Cat Who Saved Books
Rachel Morrisroe, Steven Lenton – How To Grow a Unicorn
Stephanie Garnier – How to Live Like Your Cat
Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
John Steinbeck – The Vigilante
Shon Faye – The Transgender Issue
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October 23, 2021
by Team Riverside
John le Carre – Silverview
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Stanley Tucci – Taste: My Life Through Food
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Elizabeth Strout – Oh William!
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Elena Ferrante – The Lying Life of Adults
Colm Toibin – The Magician
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Suzanna Clarke – Piranesi
Rumaan Alam – Leave The World Behind
Yotam Ottolenghi, Noor Murad – Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Florence Given – Women Don’t Owe You Pretty
Shirley Jackson – The Haunting of Hill House
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October 9, 2021
by Team Riverside
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You
Richard Osman – The Man Who Died Twice
Karina Lickorish Quinn – The Dust Never Settles
Sosuke Natsukawa – The Cat Who Saved Books
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Shon Faye – The Transgender Issue
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Merlin Sheldrake – Entangled Life
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Pat Barker – The Women of Troy
Stanley Tucci – Taste: My Life Through Food
William Boyd – Trio
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Bob Mortimer – And Away…
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October 6, 2021
by Team Riverside
Paperback, Daunt Books, £9.99, out now
Filthy Animals is the new collection of short stories from Booker Prize shortlisted writer Brandon Taylor, fans of his characteristically vivid prose and razor-sharp observations will not be disappointed by this stunning collection.
Taylor has a gift for portraying social discomfort in excruciating detail and this is perhaps best on display in the first story in the collection ‘Potluck’. Lionel, a character recovering from a suicide attempt becomes caught up in the world of Charles and Sophie, both dancers involved in an open relationship. Their encounters are ambiguous but powerful, affectionate but also distant and strange. In stories such as ‘Mass’ there is often an emphasis on the characters physicality, many of them are training to be professional dancers and there is an acute, Degas-like focus on their muscular bodies as a site for potential greatness and also a possible site of disaster. There is a kind of slipperiness throughout the book, many of the interactions between characters turn rapidly from friendly to hostile and back again. But love is always present, after so much anxiety and fraught relationships, the tenderness of ‘Anne of Cleves’ caught me off guard, it’s a beautifully realised story about a relationship blossoming between two women.
The stunning, cinematic quality of Taylor’s prose never fails, each story has a complete world within it, even when the characters fail to communicate verbally, the atmosphere is palpable. I recommend this book especially for fans of Lucia Berlin.
Review by Phoebe
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October 2, 2021
by Team Riverside
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You
Roma Agrawal and Katie Hickey – How Was That Built?
Shon Faye – The Transgender Issue
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Richard Osman – The Man Who Died Twice
Tom Chivers – London Clay
Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
Suzannah Clarke – Piranesi
Frank Herbert – Dune
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche – Notes on Grief
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Colson Whitehead – Harlem Shuffle
Bob Mortimer – And Away…
Marion Billet – Busy London
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September 24, 2021
by Team Riverside
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You
Suzannah Clarke – Piranesi
Richard Osman – The Man Who Died Twice
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Caroline Criado Perez – Invisible Women
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Frank Herbert – Dune
John Cooper Clarke – I Wanna Be Yours
Monique Roffey – The Mermaid of Black Conch
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Colm Toibin – The Magician
Nadifa Mohamed – The Fortune Men
Sally Rooney – Normal People
Eoin McLaughlin – The Hug
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
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September 9, 2021
by Team Riverside
Sally Rooney – Beautiful World, Where Are You
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Pat Barker – The Women of Troy
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and The Sun
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
Emily St. John Mandel – The Glass Hotel
Caitlin Moran – More Than a Woman
Fran Lebowitz – The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Rutger Bregman – Humankind
Clare Chambers – Small Pleasures
Charlie Macksey – The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
Merlin Sheldrake – Entangled Life
Sebastian Faulks – Snow Country
Elena Ferrante – The Lying Life of Adults
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July 12, 2021
by Team Riverside
Paperback, Hoxton Mini Press, £9.95, out now
After a year of intermittent lockdowns, when I was lucky enough to have a lively local park near me and to be able to visit it, I am very ready to try out some new London green spots. London Green Spaces is one of a gorgeous new series of small London guidebooks, and this book makes it fun to start a day-out wishlist. Even looking at the photos cheered me up.
I thought I knew most of the cool parks and green bits in London, but there were several in here I’d never heard of. London Green Spaces offers an enticing reminder of the big places too, the ones that you know about but haven’t visited for a while, like Richmond Park or Epping Forest. Useful cover maps and suggested walks would help make a day of it.
The Red Cross Garden in London Bridge features, and I can vouch for its sanctuary-like feel as a respite from the Borough Market crowds at the weekend (https://www.bost.org.uk/). The book is good on these small places as well as the grand sweeping ones. I’d add the Crossbones Graveyard, just round the corner from the Red Cross Garden, though you always need to check the opening hours (https://crossbones.org.uk/).
Other craveable titles in the series include Vegan London, London Pubs, and Independent London. You’re in London (maybe)… it’s summer (sort of)… if you’re able to get out and about these books will help you lively up your plans.
Review by Bethan
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