Book news, reviews and reading highlights. 

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News

In a first for the literary giant, Penguin Classics is publishing black spine editions of some of Marvel’s iconic work. The editions will come with scholarly introductions.

Penguin Classics said, ‘For many decades, Marvel’s comics have enthralled audiences with a whole world of storytelling, visual artistry, ideas and social commentary. This is why readers return year after year to the stories of Spider-Man, Black Panther and Captain America – characters now as deeply engrained in our culture as the folk heroes of older literary traditions.’

The first three books in the series, Black Panther, Captain America, and The Amazing Spider-Man will be published on 14 June.

New Releases

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda (release date: 24 March 2022) ⭐⭐ Love like blood. Atmospheric debut. Literary vampire fiction.

Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart (release date: 5 April 2022). ⭐⭐⭐⭐Touching, vivid and brutal follow-up to the Booker-winning Shuggie Bain. Literary fiction.

Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso (release date: 28 April 2022) ⭐⭐⭐ Growing up in small-town America with emotionally distant, casually cruel parents. Literary fiction.

Reviews

Gallant (2022) V.E.Schwabb. ⭐⭐ Orphaned sixteen-year-old Olivia Prior is summoned to the estate of Gallant by an uncle she has never met. Young Adult. Gothic Mystery.

The Yield (2020) Tara June Winch. ⭐⭐ August Gondiwindi returns to Australia for the burial of her grandfather who spent his life on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. A tale of dispossession. Literary fiction.

Moving the Palace (2017) Charif Majdalani (Transl. Edward Gauvin). ⭐⭐ A Lebanese explorer is enlisted into the service of an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and encounters a man transporting a dismantled palace across Africa on a camel caravan. Historical fiction.

Book Club Reading

The Burton Book Club is currently reading A Certain Slant of Light (2008) Laura Whitcomb and The Dutch House (2020) by Ann Patchett.

The next Book Club meeting is Monday 16 May 2022 at 5pm

When Buying

Support local independent bookshops. If you can’t get out to them, many operate online, or you can order through https://uk.bookshop.org.

Until next time, happy reading.


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