The Saturday Paper Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire KeeganThe Saturday PaperKeegan is an intensely visual writer for whom the particulars of place and precise circumstance work to authenticate the inner lives of her protagonists | Gregory Day reviews Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These. https://satpa.pe/keegwf5
Hardcover, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Greek Lessons
Han KangThe Saturday PaperHan Kang's 'Greek Lessons' finds its strength through formal choices that feel both instinctively right and always deliberate, mixing narrative scenes, internal monologue and lines of spacious poetry, says Ronnie Scott. https://t.co/VjWkMDTbDi
Paperback, 2024
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Birnam Wood
Eleanor CattonThe Saturday PaperIn Eleanor Catton's masterful satire, 'Birnam Wood', a secluded New Zealand town becomes the tragic stage for a Juvenalian-style satire that exposes the folly behind late capitalism, civil disobedience, chardonnay socialism and identity politics. https://t.co/55O2Nc7eiI
Paperback, 2024
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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
Paul NewmanThe Saturday PaperPaul Newman's posthumous biography, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, is so self-effacing and self-critical one has to presume its honesty. | @MiriamCosic https://t.co/FfEeOBfEjG
Hardcover, Large Print, 2023
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Cursed Bread
Sophie MackintoshThe Saturday Paper“Each new Sophie Mackintosh novel feels like an event, brilliant and bruising,” writes Fiona Murphy. “Her sentences have always crackled with wit and violence. But with ‘Cursed Bread’, her storytelling has reached new heights.” https://t.co/Eu1Hwi9Sgy
Paperback, 2024
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Paradise Camp
Yuki KiharaThe Saturday Paper“I thought that the only way that I could compensate for my creativity was to do something else that was other than an artist.” fa‘afafine artist Yuki Kihara on her long road to her groundbreaking work Paradise Camp, now showing at @powerhouse. https://t.co/kYyb5hF6uy
Hardcover, 2022
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A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain: Divided Into Circuits or Journies: 1
Daniel DefoeThe Saturday PaperIndependent economist John Adams alleges that complaints of misconduct submitted to ASIC have approximately only a 1 per cent chance of being officially investigated. @JohnRHewson on ASIC and Australia’s failure to address white-collar crime. https://t.co/ur9KbOobIu
Paperback, 2018
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyThe Saturday Paper"Cormac McCarthy forges the most unlikely page turners: one has little idea of what is happening but must keep reading in the hope of finding out." @PairRaggedClaws reviews 'The Passenger', the novelist's first book in over a decade: https://t.co/J1cd7bDXks
Paperback, 2023
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthyThe Saturday PaperCormac McCarthy’s 'The Passenger', his first novel in a decade, asks more questions than it answers. In that sense it’s more like his 1985 masterpiece 'Blood Meridian', than his more accessible 2005 novel 'No Country For Old Men'. https://t.co/J1cd7bEva0
Paperback, 1992
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Happy Days
Samuel BeckettThe Saturday PaperSamuel Beckett’s work endures because it can be interpreted in so many ways, writes Robert Reid. @MelbTheatreCo's 'Happy Days' is mostly a monologue for a woman who is buried in a mound of earth — it is worth seeing for Judith Lucy’s performance alone. https://t.co/ZtBTiROhPK
Paperback, 2013
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