Lisa Allardice Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lisa Allardice

Patchett wanted the novel to show how “married love is more valuable than the insane hot love of your 20s,” she says… In Tom Lake she set out to recreate this sense that “in a world and a planet that is going to hell, there is still so much beauty and so much joy,” she explains.

Lisa Allardice

So many of my favourites here. The Door by Magda Szabo is bleak but brilliant https://t.co/DLbUJ7nQmt

Lisa Allardice

Dance of the Happy Shades is a masterclass in authorial irony... A celebration of innocence and unexpected joy – but without a single note of sentimentality – it might make you cry too, and not just because it is so good, which it is, but because it is so sad and strange.

Lisa Allardice

Such a joy to talk to @LizStrout about her new novel Oh William! for @Waterstones this evening. Thank you to everyone who came along - I could almost feel the love for her in my living room.

Lisa Allardice

I talked to Douglas Stuart about winning the Booker for his heartbreaking first novel Shuggie Bain https://t.co/nr57DvdV4X

Lisa Allardice

I will be chatting to the legendary @Beathhigh about his appropriately titled new novel A Song for the Dark Times - and all other Rebus related stuff - tomorrow evening. Please do pop by for a pint! Book Club with Ian Rankin https://t.co/s06FiHk8h0 #GuardianLive

Lisa Allardice

This evening I will be talking to the peerless Marilynne Robinson about Jack, the final novel in her sublime Gilead series. Please do come. Consider it a yoga class for the mind, soul even! https://t.co/89ENH1OfYi #GuardianLive

Lisa Allardice

I will be chatting to the legendary @Beathhigh about his appropriately titled new novel A Song for the Dark Times - and all other Rebus related stuff - tomorrow evening. Please do pop by for a pint! Book Club with Ian Rankin https://t.co/s06FiHk8h0 #GuardianLive

Lisa Allardice

(It) contains the much-quoted lines that have been taken as a credo for Munro’s writing... And here lies the key to Munro’s greatness – the way in which she polished the same apparently humdrum material to a luminous sheen. Her stories are small miracles of humane understanding.