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this summer’s United States Semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence with a special edition of Jill Lepore’s These Truths: A History of the United States (WW Norton). Preparations are underway for
a summer of football, with the men’s FIFA World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada prompting a range of new and updated football writing, from Jonathan Wilson’s The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup (Abacus) to Joey D’Urso’s thought-provok- ing More Than a Shirt (Seven Dials), advice from managers in Chris Evans’ How to Win the World Cup (Bloomsbury Sport) and Gareth Southgate’s Dear England: Lessons in Leadership (Penguin). There is also an account from an England player who has actually won a trophy in Mary Earps’ All In: Football, Life and Learning to Be Unapologetically Me (Leap).
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with their sense of an eternal summer that is also too quickly over. Among other summery reads are Sarah Moss’ Ripeness (Picador), William Rayfet Hunter’s Sunstruck (Penguin), Ben Okri’s Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted (Apollo) and Lucy Steeds’ acclaimed The Artist (John Murray). A special non-fiction shout out goes to John L Williams’ Heatwave: The Summer of 1976 (Monoray), grounding memories of the hottest British summer on record, month by month.
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Five friends from university reunite for a summer break at a lakeside cabin in Denmark, 12 years after they first met. Daydreamer Sylvia, charming bachelor
Preparations are underway for a summer of football, with the men’s FIFA World Cup prompting a range of new and updated football writing
Fiction is trending a sun-
drenched feeling. Long, hot idyllic summers, fever dreams of rest and relaxation or intense drama are all present. This month’s book of the month, Linea Maja Ernst’s Waist Deep (Vintage), breaks out the elaborate salads and basks in the holiday feeling, while Emily Itami’s Kakigori Summer (Phoenix) and John Patrick McHugh’s Fun and Games (4th Estate) both feature in the top 10
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Quince, who has transitioned since university, carer mother Gry, mild-mannered Esben and tall and beautiful Karen come with partners and children in tow. The novel is structured around their week together: the setting is idyllic, and the season adds to its richness, with midsummer approaching. Each character brings their own plans for
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Linea Maja Ernst, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg (trans) Waist Deep
Vintage, 7th, £9.99, 9781529954388
the break, floating their dreams, only to find them punctured and reinflated. The realities of children and work conflict with attempts to revivify the passionate intellectual discourse of university. Nevertheless, sharp dialogue showcases their views in a robust way, bringing something of the bar and common room to their reunion, as well as mocking their desires for photogenic meals and experiences. When Esben and Karen suddenly announce
their engagement, the free-floating desire is only briefly stemmed before the discovery of a glade sets their theatrical impulses racing again. There are some racy scenes so if you are reading in public, or listening on audio in public like I was, be forewarned.
xciting reissues to report in May include a spirited addition to Penguin Michael Joseph’s the
Mermaid Collection in Clemence Dane’s 1917 novel Regiment of Women. Dane, the pen name of Winifred Ashton, was the inspiration for Madame Arcati in Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit. Classic crime reissues arrive from John Dickson Carr writing as Carter Dickson in The Unicorn Murders (British Library) and Clifford Witting’s Villainous Saltpetre (Galileo). Sutherland-based press North
House launches with three reissues of Neil M Gunn’s novels, The Grey Coast, The Serpent and Blood Hunt. Polygon celebrates Agnes Owens in her centenary year with a handful of reissues and Allen Ginsberg’s Selected Poems: 1947-1995 (Penguin Modern Classics) is reissued ahead of his centenary in June.
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