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Claire’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Claire’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Swimming Lessons
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2017
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38 editions
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Bitter Orange
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2018
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32 editions
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Our Endless Numbered Days
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2015
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46 editions
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Unsettled Ground
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2021
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37 editions
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The Memory of Animals
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2023
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2 editions
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After the Fall - Tales of the Apocalypse
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2013
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Unquiet Guests
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2025
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Bard: The Short Story Collection
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2018
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Hunger and Thirst
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2026
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Sweet & Sassy Coloring Book: Pretty Girls Coloring Pages featuring Cute and Bold Girl with Attitude, Edgy Illustrations for All Ages Fun & Creativity
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UK Cover of Hunger and Thirst Revealed
I’m really excited to share with you the UK cover of Hunger and Thirst, which will be published by Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin, on 7th May next year. And I’m excited to know what you think of it!
What’s it about?Hunger and Thirst is about Ursula, a famous and reclusive sculptor, who is looking back to 1987 when she was sixteen and worked in the post room of an Art School. She meets wild-c
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| "A long tender farewell to youth", as one character says in this intense, emotional, lovely book. The narrator (only named at the very end) has her first relationship at college, unsurprisingly there are issues, but through this man she starts a love ...more | |
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| An epic - in storytelling, in length and in writing ability. 843 gripping pages. I don't really understand who McMurtry did it, kept all the storylines interesting, all the characters completely real, kept surprising me with who he killed off. And ho ...more | |
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| Twelve creepy, weird and brilliant short stories. I had my favourites and they tended to be the longer ones: Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream (Danny dreams that he discovers a person, murdered and buried behind a gas station, when he visits he discovers hi ...more | |
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| Five big stars for The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. I chose this book for the book club I run at the Cabinet Rooms in Winchester. It was pretty divisive, with lots of people actively disliking it but I adored it. An unnamed narrator is a writer and creati ...more | |
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| This is the fourth Michael Crummey novel I've read, and like all the others I loved it. Definitely a contender for my books of the year. In the late 18th Century two siblings - the Widow Caines and Abe Strapp are fighting for commercial supremacy in ...more | |
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| Who remembers this from the first time around? First published in 1983 it's about the year that Lucy Irvine spent on an uninhabited island in the Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia, with Gerald Kingsland who is twenty-five years older tha ...more | |
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| This is Salter's third novel, written / set in the early - mid 1960s in rural France, and it is AMAZING. For its prose - descriptions of France and travelling by train and food and buildings. For its atmosphere - out of season France, a slow, languid ...more | |
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| Take What You Need by Idra Novey was recommended to me by fellow author and friend, Judith Heneghan, and I loved it. It's on my top ten reads of the year, and we're not halfway through 2025 yet. In rural Pennsylvania, sculptor, Jean is mourning the e ...more | |
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| Leaving by Roxana Robinson was one of three books recommended by author Huma Qureshi as part of my Books under the Radar series on my website and Instagram. I can't possibly read all the books suggested in the series each week but this one caught my ...more | |
“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
― Swimming Lessons
― Swimming Lessons
“My father was fond of saying 'If you own too many possessions sooner or later they start owning you.”
― Our Endless Numbered Days
― Our Endless Numbered Days
“Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From now on, Punzel, we're going to live by the sun and the seasons.' He picked me up and spun me around, laughing.'Our days will be endless.”
― Our Endless Numbered Days
― Our Endless Numbered Days
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Claire, I was so happy to hear you'd won the 2021 Costa Novel Award for Unsettled Ground!! WOW - congratulations! What a huge honour, and so very well-deserved! You must be very happy; I'm sure all your friends and fans are very happy for you, too. Way to go!!📘🥇📚🍾👑🎈🎉🎊🎆🙌🥳
hi, Claire! thanks for accepting my friend request! you're cool!
