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How to kidnap the rich?
How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina We found this gripping satire on modern India hilarious. The Guardian describes it as as “a cinematic caper – HBO ...
Fancy something steamier?
Check out Luster by Raven Leilani. As the Guardian says about her: “I try to replicate a version of sex on the page where the reader feels like a voyeur” ...
Prime…Real Estate
This oddly named book by Deborah Levy is out. As the Guardian says: “The narrator of Real Estate is drily funny, irreverent, curious, even wise; she makes t ...
Slough House
Slough House has been released. “Mick Herron’s acclaimed spy-cum-political-satire series now stands at seven novels; the latest, Slough House, is named afte ...
Making change happen
Public Citizens by Paul Sabin This book caught out interest for those interested in public policy - and making change happen. As the NY Times describes “Wh ...
LAST SUMMER IN THE CITY
This new book by Calligarich covers a protagonist who “now gravely ill, he is most tormented by his own approaching demise. As with the changed city, he hardly ...
And speaking of counterfactuals…
And speaking of counterfactuals... Check out Civilisations by Laurent Binet! As the Guardian says “Each of Civilisations’ four parts poses as a historica ...
Here at OutinPaperback, we start to notice trends because our readers start adding certain books to their list of books they want to hear about when they’re Out in Paperback.
This month, two books have crept up the rankings of people adding them to their OutinPaperback lists: The Midnight Library, and the Mirror and the Light.
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library
It’s an amazing concept, one I’m sure many of us which we’d have thought of before. What if you could inhabit different lives as you take a book off the bookshelf? Each book is a different trajectory to a hypothetical life.
No distractions – just exploring the lines of possibility and decision itself!
Check out The Midnight Library here.
Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light.
The other book we’ve noticed is The Mirror and the Light. It’s been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Hilary Mantel’s award-winning series, that started with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, is finally coming to an end.
The parallels with today – the making of a modern nation challenged between royal tyranny vs socially mobile classes, is poignant and relevant for today.