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As well as boasting a stellar selection of literary fiction, March takes on a celestial feel with offerings from Brian Cox and Douglas Adams
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cornucopia of literary fiction is due to hit our shelves in March, from
Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker- winning Girl, Woman, Other, to Ian McEwan’s take on AI, Machines Like Me, and Ali Smith’s latest seasonal instalment, Spring. Crime, both modern-day and historical, is also extremely strong this month: my personal favourite is Adrian McKint’s kidnap- thriller The Chain, but there are new titles from David Baldacci, Alexander McCall Smith, Joseph Knox, and, intriguingly, Newt Gingrich.
In non-fiction, Charlote Bingham’s sequel to MI5 and Me is bound to be big, as are Brian Cox’s The Planets, Mat Parker’s Humble Pi and John Barton’s history of the Bible. I couldn’t fit them in my picks, but I’ve also been charmed by a collection of recipes from the Durrell
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family’s archives and by the great Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge’s celebration of the joys of walking. Perhaps most importantly, though, March marks the 42nd anniversary of the first-ever trans- mission of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4, and Pan is bringing
March marks the 42nd anniversary of the first- ever transmission of... The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Book of the Month Clanchy shares lessons from teaching career
Memoir
Kate Clanchy Some Kids I Taught and What They
the original scripts back into print to celebrate. “‘The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Fort-two,’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majest and calm.” Fantastic.
Taught Me Picador, 19th, £9.99, 9781509840311
I am a sucker for all the “professional confessional” memoirs we’ve been seeing over the past year: firemen and women, doctors, barristers, nurses—they’re all fascinating, moving, inspiring. This, though, might be my favourite so far. Clanchy, the poet, teacher and
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13th December 2019
writer who last year gave us the wonderful anthology of her students’ work, England: Poems from a School, is back to provide an insight into life in Britain’s state schools as she writes about some of the children she’s taught over the last 30 years. She’s hilarious and heart-wrenching as she describes the reality of sex to a class of Scottish kids; she’s outraged as she writes of her battle to keep a young Kurdish boy in school in the teeth of opposition from social workers and form teachers; she’s passionate about the importance of creative writing. “One of the most inspiring books about teaching you’ll
ever read... superbly well written... brilliantly funny... read this book,” said the Sunday Times. Or as Philip Pullman put it: “No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying. I want to see this book become a bestseller.” You heard the man.
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