BBC Between the Covers book list

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Just in case you don’t already have a reading list as long as several arms end to end, here are more books — courtesy of the BBC programme Between the Covers.

Does anyone feel like picking one of them on behalf of the rest of us — the rest of us being anyone who’s interested — so we can have a bit of a book-group type discussion about it on here? Might be fun and even enlightening…

All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker is an elegiac tale that can be read as a crime novel, a dark bildungsroman, a star-crossed romance, and a paean to small town America. Travelling the decades – and thousands of miles across country – the book brings to vivid life a cast of indelible characters, their triumphs and tragedies, and – via a series of beautifully executed twists – their ultimate fates. Vast, yearning, and luminous.
(Vaseem Khan)

Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon. Set in the Sicily of 412 BC, Lennon’s at once riotously funny and incredibly moving novel finds two locals and a bunch of captured Athenian soldiers staging two of Euripides’ greatest tragedies in a quarry. (Waterstones)

There are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak. A rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris – their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh. (Waterstones)

Butter, by Asako Yuzuk. The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. (Waterstones)

Whale Fall, by Elizabeth O’Connor. It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island’s shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for what’s to come. (Waterstones)

The Kellerby Code, by Jonny Sweet. A deft, witty homage to classic country house crime ideal for readers of Janice Hallett and Richard Osman, Sweet’s irresistible whydunit centres on an extremely toxic love triangle in danger of turning deadly. (Waterstones)

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