As the nights draw in, Joseph and Amanda look forward to all the autumn releases they hope to get through before December. Along the way, they meander through prize news, current reads and discover circular themes about the Epic of Gilgamesh, pianos and Dickens – and that’s all before they get to the mimmoths.
Bookish News
A Tale of Two Cities, a Marlowe Theatre Production
The Hugo Awards
The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow @alix.e.harrow
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone @max.gladstone
A Wizard Of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel by Ursula K. LeGuin and Fred Fordham
Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirlees
A Drop Of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett @r.jackson.bennett
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Current Reads
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak @shafakelif
Land by Maggie O’Farrell @maggieofarrellofficial
Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason @meg_mason_writer
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Autumn Preview
Ply by Hernan Diaz
Trust by Hernan Diaz
American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee @lee_minjin
End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor @naomiklein @astraamoura
The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson @jennyjacksonpineapple
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
The Wedding People by Alison Espach @alison.espach
The Strangers by Naomi Alderman @naomi_alderman
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Partita by Barbara Kingsolver @barbara.kingsolver
Minihorror by Barbi Marković translated by Jen Calleja @barbimarkovich @jencalleja_
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula
Off The Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham-Jones
Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage @simonarmitage_official
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus @bonnie_garmus_author
Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus
Stations by Louise Kennedy @louisekennedywriter
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Furious, Disney Plus
Widow’s Bay on Apple TV
Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot (also know as Abra in Canada)
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura
On The Calculation of Volume - Volume V by Solvej Balle
The Pen: A Human History by Simon Garfield
The Missing Ink: How Handwriting Made Us Who We Are by Philip Hensher
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Alan
Hudson by Hernán Ronsino, translated by Mallory Craig-Kuhn
Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
Look What You Made Me Do by John Lancaster
Capital by John Lancaster
Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio
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