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Our Books of the Month for September are here! Our fiction spotlight is The Girls, a rediscovered classic that's part dark comedy, part cosy love story, and our Non-Fiction pick is Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, a personal journey turning burial grounds into spaces of reflection and emotional discovery. |
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Introducing our |
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"The Girls is a glorious rollercoaster ride of a novel set in the Cotswolds in the heady heights of summer, offset by the odour of a rotting corpse in the septic tank. Despite the theoretically dark subject matter, John Bowen has written something deft and hilarious - speckled with glorious descriptions of country fairs, loose farm animals, and the trials and tribulations of parenthood. I would recommend this book to absolutely anyone who wishes to be charmed, appalled, and delighted in equal measure.”
Bea El-Masry, Bookseller
The Girls by John Bowen is part black comedy, part gothic horror, set in 1986 in the Cotswolds. It’s a rediscovered/reissued classic which is really capturing everyone’s attention at the moment.
Here's acclaimed, booker-shortlisted novelist and short story writer Daisy Johnson - and author of Long Wave, published earlier this summer - introducing this month's pick.
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"A warm treat of a novel. Two women, Middle England, craft fairs, a baby, a body in a sceptic tank. Funny and genteel. Once started you will be hooked!”
Kate Stilborn, Bookseller
"[For] those who feel Barbara Pym-ish on some days and Stephen King-ish on others . . . The Girls charms us as only certain tales 'of village life' can."
Washington Post
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave
My Cemetery Journeys
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by Mariana Enriquez (author), Megan McDowell (translator) |
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Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez is a personal and cultural history of graves and graveyards written by the ever-intriguing Mariana Enriquez, who is perhaps better known for her unique fiction: her collections of haunting and otherworldly short stories, A Sunny Place for Shady People, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, and Things We Lost in the Fire; and her highly acclaimed novel, Our Share of Night.
Taking in cemeteries in South and North America, Europe and Australia, we get a world-wide tour of burials and tombstones, and many of the remarkable socio-political stories underlying the deaths which occurred. Enriquez shares with us the myths, the architecture, the artistry and the human tales inspired by her sepulchral wanderings.
It’s important to say that despite the macabre subject matter, this alternative travelogue is written with a witty and conversational tone which endears itself to the reader. Enriquez is clearly devoted to her subject matter, and this comes across undeniably in her quirky, characterful and effervescent prose.
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"Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take you by the hand and lead you for a long traipse among tilting tombstones, dank crypts, and chilling history."
Joe Hill, author of King Sorrow
"Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is part-travelogue, part-memoir, part-history, myth and legend. Even readers who lack her taste for the macabre will be enticed by Enriquez's infectious enthusiasm for her subject... [A] highly original book."
Financial Times
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