#1 The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller. Litfic.
A semi-autobiographical novel from a Nobel laureate about growing up in Ceaușescu’s Romania. Sometimes painful, often chilling and always haunting.
Remarkable.
#36 The Waves by Virginia Woolf. Classic fiction.
Regularly included in lists of the best books ever written and I can see why, though I found the characters a little too precious to be engaging. It’s especially haunting as a foreshadowing of Woolf’s untimely end.
#22 Still Waters by ECR Lorac. Classic crime.
Clever, twisty 1949 whodunnit set in rural Lancashire (NOT the Lake District, despite what it says on the cover). An absolutely cracking read.
Proofreading this beauty for the final print today and it is utterly brilliant. A post-WW1 forbidden gay love story that also deals with class divide and PTSD. An unbelievably good read from an amazing writer 😍