Looking to top-up your bookshelf for summer? Tara Pilkington is here to bring you 5 different books to add to your summertime reading list!
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
Originally published in 1947, The Dry Heart tells the story of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness and how these feelings proceed the narrator’s murder of her husband. In this novel, Natalia Ginzburg’s writing is white-hot as she transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller.
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six tells the thrilling and exciting story of a band whose sound defined an era and whose sudden split left a trail of unanswered questions in its wake. Intoxicatingly written, with a cast of characters that you can’t help but instantly fall for, this book is a nostalgia-fuelled trip into the heady world of 70’s L.A. at its hedonistic peak.
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Queenie is a novel following a period in the life of 26-year-old Queenie, a British woman of Caribbean descent, who has just broken up with her (white) boyfriend. A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, this is a story that follows a young woman who is trying to navigate her way in the world.
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
The Memory Police is a 1994 science fiction novel by Yōko Ogawa and tells a haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss. The story follows a young novelist who discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him.
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.
