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Shane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Shane Richmond
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| Zakia Sewell travels England, Wales and Scotland exploring the folk traditions pointing to a national identity beyond that championed by Reform (and to an extent, by the Tories and Labour): demonising immigrants and non-white people. Along the way sh ...more | |
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| A Palestinian woman is raped and murdered by Israeli soldiers in 1949. Decades later another Palestinian woman learns that she was born 25 years to the day after that event and goes on a journey to learn more. It’s a simple and bleak book that resona ...more | |
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| Wire’s drummer, Robert Grey, describes the band as “four people playing in a room” but four people arguing in a room seems be more appropriate, based on this biography. In short: they made three classic albums in the late 70s and planned a fourth but ...more | |
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| Laurent Binet writes historical literary fiction with a comic, postmodern twist. This one is a murder mystery set in Renaissance Florence, with the artist Pontormo found stabbed in front of frescoes he’s worked on for years. Told through letters feat ...more | |
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| Palantir is the creepy tech company that helps militaries and police forces analyse data so they can get their targets. But even perfect data can tell a misleading story, and The Philosopher in the Valley offers a practical example. Author Michael St ...more | |
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession
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| I’ve enjoyed a couple of Grann’s full-length works but this is a collection of his magazine features, mostly written for the New Yorker. Inevitably, I enjoyed some more than others but there are some extraordinary stories here, particularly the story ...more | |
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| This Japanese murder mystery is more of a puzzle than a novel, with very little characterisation or action, and mostly consists of two guys trying to solve a 40-year-old series of murders. An artist, obsessed with astrology and alchemy, writes a biza ...more | |
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| This is the first book I’ve read by László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. It’s also his first novel. It’s the bleak, often darkly humorous story of the inhabitants of a decrepit village in communist Hungary who are i ...more | |
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