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Ventilation Shafts of Britain by Lucy Lavers, Judy Ovens and Suzanna Prizeman (Particular), which has seriously activated my inner nerd. And while I person- ally find solving puzzles just too much like hard work, let us give a great big gifty shout out to that most prolific author of the festive season, Gareth Moore. Rare is the quiz or puzzle book that does not have his name attached. Purrdle or Woofdle (Greenfinch) anyone? From the punnily ridiculous to
the serious now. For it is notable that October brings a batch of books that address the history and legacy of the slave trade, including the issue of reparations. Sudhir Hazareesingh’s Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World (Allen Lane) is a landmark and
issues do not go away just because Christmas is coming. As ever, my Top 10 Titles are
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personal favourites, all of which I read with huge pleasure. In this most rammed of months, I espe- cially wanted to flag a few under the radar gems. With publication of my own latest book – Listen With Father: How I Learned to Love Classical Music – only days away at the time of writing, I am more than usually aware of how little oxygen the vast majority of titles get on publication. Listen With Father is a book
October brings a batch of books that address the history and legacy of the slave trade. The big issues do not go away just because Christmas is coming
meticulously researched history of enslaved people’s resistance to Atlantic slavery, while The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara (Doubleday) distils centuries of the slave trade into the story of a single voyage, which altered the course of history. And one of my Top 10 Titles Not to Miss is The Big Payback: The Case for Reparations for Slavery and How They Would Work by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder (Faber). The big
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Born in 1997 in north-west Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai grew up loving learning. Then in 2009, the Taliban came to power in her home region and she was no longer permitted to go to school. Moved to speak out against this injustice, her activism made her a target. In October 2012, a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her. She woke up 10 days later in a Birmingham hospital, and after months of surgeries and rehabilitation, she settled with her family in the UK. In 2013, her powerful book, I Am Malala
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Malala Yousafzai Finding My Way Weidenfeld, 21st, £25, HB, 9781399619349
(written with Christina Lamb) was published, and in 2014, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest-ever Nobel laureate. Malala Fund continues to campaign for the right of every girl to learn and choose her future. Malala’s own learning and life choices are
the subject of this remarkable new memoir. At 15 – an age when most are still grappling with the trials of adolescence – she was a trauma survivor, trying to find a way forward after her life inalterably changed and set her on a path she could never have predicted. Centred on her student days at Oxford University, Finding My Way is about making friends, falling in love, mental health and self- discovery; about staying true to yourself while walking a tightrope between the expectations of a very public role with what you really feel like doing on a Saturday night. It is told with fierce honesty, humour and a vulnerability that makes your heart ache for her. If you are already an admirer of the public
Malala, you will admire her all the more after coming to know the private one.
about remembrance, written in tribute to the ordinary decent man who was my late father. So I was most moved to read Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man (Cape), a tribute to her late, ordinary, decent father-in-law, David. And I love that it is being published in a month so laden with well-known names. My Book of the Month – Finding
My Way: A Memoir by Malala Yousafzai – takes up the life story of one of the most extraordinary young women of our times. Yet, as she reminds us in this remarkable memoir, greatness was thrust upon her in the most brutal and traumatic of ways. Malala’s courageous activism is remarkable, humbling and justly celebrated. But more humbling still is the way she has chosen to show us the ordinary, often conflicted human being – uncannily like the rest of us – who grapples with her private self behind the public face. What a fable for our times that is.
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