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Looking for a new book? Saskia Hayward, in consultation with her fellow booksellers at Topping & Co., comes up with some ideas based on their own reads... Maisy recently read Almond by WonPyun Sohn. She describes it as “A heart-wrenching, poignant, and subtle book that gives a fragment of an idea of what it’s like to live with an invisible illness. It’s incredible to experience Won-Pyung building a world that is so vivid even when so far removed from the reader. A book to re-read and reflect on as time changes and years pass.” HarperVia, £10.99
I’ve been really enjoying diving into the work of Marlon James, prior to our event with him on 3 March. Marlon won the Booker Prize in 2015 for A Brief History of Seven Killings. He joins us to talk about the second book in his revolutionary Dark Star series, Moon Witch Spider King, drawing on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to imagine a mythic world, a lost child, a 177-yearold witch, a deadly regal chancellor, and a mystery with many answers…” Hamish Hamilton, £20, publishes 3 March.
Inspired by a brilliant article in a newspaper, I started reading Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland. It’s a piece of literary travel which tells the true story of Tété-Michel Kpomassie. As a young boy in Togo, Kpomassie stumbled across a book with a photograph of the Inuit people on its cover. Completely transfixed by the image, in 1965 he left his home country to travel across continents and begin a new life in Greenland. Penguin Classics, £9.99
Rafe has been reading Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovich, a brilliant debut collection of short stories centred around women’s interior worlds and lives. In these stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women’s lives – from the brink of adulthood, to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, through middle age. Picador, £14.99. n toppingbooks.co.uk
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March 2022
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issue 229
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