A K BLAKEMORE Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@RowanHLB In the Cut by Susanna Moore - but arguably a literary pastiche more than a straight crime novel

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read child of god by cormac mccarthy at a breathless gallop in the course of an early evening. might be the most harrowing thing i have ever read, & among most brilliant - contemplating turning right back round to go again

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@sensiblehuman96 fun (more or less) good vibes books i recently enjoyed! * Nell Zink - Nicotine * Imogen Binnie - Nevada * Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban * Lara Williams - The Odyssey * Gwendolyn Brooks - Maud Martha

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@antonomasiabks i have a few instinctive responses but want to look over my reading again to answer you properly. Immediately i think: Robert Gluck - Margery Kempe The Corner That Held Them - Sylvia Townsend Warner Song for a Dark Queen - Rosemary Sutcliffe & the Wolf Hall books

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@emmatranter_ & publishing bears a lot of responsibility for blithely riding the circe wave for so long - but it speaks volumes that you can get more radical notions from ovid's heroides or hughes or christopher logue than most contemporary classically-inspired novels lol

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@sensiblehuman96 fun (more or less) good vibes books i recently enjoyed! * Nell Zink - Nicotine * Imogen Binnie - Nevada * Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban * Lara Williams - The Odyssey * Gwendolyn Brooks - Maud Martha

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@egeofanatolia extremely actually good but also erotic af - Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck!

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also sidenote i finished i'm a fan by @Sheena_Patel_ a couple of days ago & it's fucking genius. i think a lot of the girlies want what she has. paperback forthcoming from @GrantaBooks 👀👀 https://t.co/KanDJiZGuu

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it's my birthday! aka the perfect day to pre-order my sophomore novel, The Glutton, from @GrantaBooks - https://t.co/ivbqdTIEy9

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@SarahFPoetry Sarah Waters' Fingersmith & The Night Ship by Jess Kidd are two examples read recently; this is a v common structure in historical fiction! Haven't read it but the Outlander series. will probs think of some more!