Bookshelf: our latest reads

04/09/22 • 47 min

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Our bookshelf shows are the ones where we get to cut loose and follow our own preferences, so listen in as Kate tries to figure out the best way to show up for her life after reading Oliver Burkeman’s 4,000 Hours. Meanwhile Laura is drawn into ’A dark world of desire and fantasy’ with French prizewinner No Touching by Ketty Rouf, we figure out via an emergency call to an Irish friend how to pronounce Colm Tóibín, but unfortunately this doesn't help Kate in her struggle with his book about Thomas Mann, The Magician. Laura gets on better with Brit Bennett's book The Mothers, which she can't put down. Finally, Kate has a new girl-crush on Canadian author Sheila Heti after reading her book Motherhood.

Booklist

4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman

No Touching by Ketty Rouf

The Magician by Colm Toíbín

Motherhood by Sheila Heti

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Laura also mentioned Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Little by Edward Carey and Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid.

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Booklist

4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman

No Touching by Ketty Rouf

The Magician by Colm Toíbín

Motherhood by Sheila Heti

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Laura also mentioned Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Little by Edward Carey and Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid.

Previous Episode

Motherhood • with Claire Lynch

It's Mother's Day here in the UK and as there's nothing Kate loves more than a special episode we've put together a show on the theme of Motherhood. We're joined by Claire Lynch, author of Small: On Motherhoods, her literary memoir of her own unusual journey into motherhood. Elizabeth Morris of Crib Notes book club joins us too – who better to help us pull together our essential reads on the topic. We've got laughter, we might shed a few tears, and brilliant books to cover all eventualities.

BOOKLIST

Small: on motherhoods, by Claire Lynch

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Motherhood by Sheila Heti

A Life’s Work by Rachel Cusk

A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann ní Ghríofa

M(otherhood) by Praya Agarwal

The Best Most Awful Job by Katherine May

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

No-One Talks About this Stuff by Kat Brown

NOTES

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Next Episode

The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani

Author Salman Rushdie called it 'an exceptional novel' while Claire Messud 'didn't want it to end' but what did Laura's book club make of this first book in a new trilogy from French-Moroccan sensation Leïla Slimani?

We're joined by regular pod-listener Youssra, who gave us her insight into how the book has been received in her native Morocco.

And we've got our usual round of book recommendations to help you find your next great read.

Book recommendations

Une année chez les français by Foud Laroui

The Moor’s Account by Leila Lalami

This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun

All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui

Year of the Elephant by Leila Abouzeid

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