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Sunday, April 6, 2025

Song for Sunday


Sam Fender – Crumbling Empire

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Song of the week: Goodbye to Music – Flyying Colours

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  • The New World – Chris Reynolds
  • A Dark Redemption – Stav Sherez
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  • On the Beach – Nevil Shute Norway
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  • Tokyo Nights – Jim Douglas
  • Tin Man – Sarah Winman
  • The Explorer – Katherine Rundell
  • Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker
  • The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
  • Armada – Ernest Cline
  • How to Stop Time – Matt Haig
  • The Illuminations – Andrew O'Hagan
  • At the Edge – Danny MacAskill
  • The Secret Life: Three True Stories – Andrew O'Hagan
  • Blue Light Yokohama – Nicolás Obregón
  • The Best We Could Do – Thi Bui
  • The Dry – Jane Harper
  • Firelight (Amulet Book 7) – Kazu Kibuishi
  • Ventoux – Bert Wagendorp
  • Death Note (volumes 1 and 2) – Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
  • Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
  • Before the Frost – Henning Mankell
  • The Last of Us – Rob Ewing

2017 Reading

  • The Master Algorithm – Pedro Domingos
  • Satin Island – Tom McCarthy
  • Gnomon – Nick Harkaway
  • In Real Life – Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang
  • Blankets – Craig Thompson
  • Ascent – Jed Mercurio and Wesley Robins
  • Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
  • Days of Bagnolt Summer – Joff Winterhart
  • American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
  • The Living and Dead in Winsford – Håkan Nesser
  • On the Java Ridge – Jock Serong
  • No Dominion – Louise Welsh
  • Driving Short Distances – Joff Winterhart
  • To Be Continued – James Robertson
  • Escape from Lucien (Amulet Book 6) – Kazu Kibuishi
  • Weapons of Math Destruction – Cathy O'Neil
  • Porcelain: A Memoir – Moby
  • Broken Monsters – Lauren Beukes
  • Prince of the Elves (Amulet Book 5) – Kazu Kibuishi
  • Off the Map – Alastair Bonnett
  • Bête – Adam Roberts
  • City of Light, City of Dark – Avi and Brian Floca
  • The Shadow District – Arnaldur Indridason
  • The End of the Day – Claire North
  • The Last Council (Amulet Book 4) – Kazu Kibuishi
  • Waiting for Sunrise – William Boyd
  • Entry Island – Peter May
  • The Lonely City – Olivia Laing
  • Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
  • Lost Japan – Alex Kerr
  • Europe in Winter – Dave Hutchinson
  • The Strangler's Honeymoon – Håkan Nesser
  • This Census Taker – China Miéville
  • The Age of Bowie – Paul Morley
  • His Bloody Project – Graeme Macrae Burnet
  • Black Glass – Meg Mundell
  • The Cloud Searchers (Amulet Book 3) – Kazu Kibuishi
  • Level Up – Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham
  • Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent – Gabrielle Walker
  • The Stonekeeper's Curse (Amulet Book 2) – Kazu Kibuishi
  • The Stonekeeper (Amulet Book 1) – Kazu Kibuishi
  • An Event in Autumn – Henning Mankell
  • Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival – David Pilling
  • Sunset Park – Paul Auster
  • Ghosts – Raina Telgemeier
  • Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
  • Rather be the Devil – Ian Rankin
  • Turtle Diary – Russell Hoban

2016 reading

  • Brasyl – Ian MacDonald
  • The Travelling Companion – Ian Rankin
  • The Troubled Man – Henning Mankell
  • By Night in Chile – Roberto Bolaño
  • The Inspector and the Silence – Håkan Nesser
  • Scarred – Thomas Enger
  • The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage – Sydney Padua
  • The Racer – David Millar
  • When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
  • Coffin Road – Peter May
  • Oblivion – Arnaldur Indridason
  • Black Rock White City – A S Patric
  • Where the Dead Men Go – Liam McIlvanney
  • Earthbound – Paul Morley
  • The Brilliant & Forever – Kevin MacNeil
  • The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
  • London Overground – Iain Sinclair
  • Moriarty – Anthiny Horowitz
  • The Bricks that Built the Houses – Kate Tempest
  • Death is a Welcome Guest – Louise Welsh
  • Reykjavik Nights – Arnaldur Indridason
  • Europe at Midnight – Dave Hutchinson
  • In the Light of What We Know – Zia Haider Rahman
  • The Red Highway – Nicolas Rothwell
  • Every Day is For the Thief – Teju Cole
  • Even Dogs in the Wild – Ian Rankin
  • A God in Ruins – Kate Atkinson
  • Tigerman – Nick Harkaway
  • Zoo City – Lauren Beukes
  • Descent – Ken MacLeod
  • Munster's Case – Håkan Nesser
  • Rooftoppers – Katherine Rundell
  • Strange Weather in Tokyo – Hiromi Kawakami
  • Graveland – Alan Glynn
  • How Music Got Free – Stephen Witt
  • The Man Who Smiled – Henning Mankell
  • Munich Airport – Greg Baxter
  • Touch – Clare North

2015 reading

  • A Clean Break – Christophe Bassons
  • Slade House – David Mitchell
  • Moxyland – Lauren Beukes
  • Capital – John Lanchester
  • The Maze Runner – James Dashner
  • Gone Again – Doug Johnstone
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
  • The Girl in the Spider's Web – David Lagercrantz
  • Strange Shores – Arnaldur Indridason
  • Europe in Autumn – David Hutchinson
  • Original Rockers – Richard King
  • Kolmsky Heights – Lionel Davidson
  • Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
  • The Dervish House – Ian McDonald
  • The Last Days of Disco – David F Ross
  • Cyclopedia – William Fotheringham
  • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia – Peter Pomerantsev
  • The Shining Girls – Lauren Beukes
  • The Year of Living Danishly – Helen Russell
  • The Weeping Girl – Håkan Nesser
  • American Smoke – Iain Sinclair
  • Granta 127: Japan
  • Shaun Tan – The Arrival
  • H is for Hawk – Helen MacDonald
  • Hour of the Wolf – Håkan Nesser
  • Intrusion – Ken MacLeod
  • The Gardener from Ochakov – Andrey Kurkov
  • Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson
  • Salvation of a Saint – Keigo Higashino
  • C – Tom McCarthy
  • Hell of a Journey – Mike Cawthorne
  • Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
  • 30 Days in Sydney – Peter Carey
  • The Dead Beat – Doug Johnstone
  • The Peripheral – William Gibson
  • Winterland – Alan Glynn
  • The Circle – Dave Eggers
  • Remix – Lawrence Lessig
  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami
  • The Subterranean Railway – Christian Wolmar
  • Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
  • Pierced – Thomas Enger
  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North

2014 reading

  • The Strange Library – Haruki Murakami
  • Their Lips Talk of Mischief – Alan Warner
  • All the Colours of the Town – Liam McIlvanney
  • Clay – Melissa Harrison
  • The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
  • Accidental Empires – Robert X Cringely
  • Hit and Run – Doug Johnstone
  • Tigerman – Nick Harkaway
  • The Man From Beijing – Henning Mankell
  • My Year of Meats – Ruth Ozeki
  • A Lovely Way to Burn – Louise Welsh
  • Legends of the Tour – Jan Cleijne
  • The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
  • Woman With a Birthmark – Håkan Nesser
  • Slaying the Badger – Richard Moore
  • The Heart Broke In – James Meek
  • Norwegian by Night – Derek B MIller
  • New Model Army – Adam Roberts
  • Angelmaker – Nick Harkaway
  • Specimen Days – Michael Cunningham
  • Gold – Chris Cleave
  • The Mind's Eye – Håkan Nesser
  • Limitless – Alan Glynn
  • The Rings of Saturn – W G Sebald
  • The Bridge – Iain Banks
  • Stasiland – Anna Funder
  • Moss Witch and Other Stories – Sara Maitland
  • My Tango With Barbara Strozzi – Russell Hoban
  • Burned – Thomas Enger
  • A Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers
  • Truth – Peter Temple
  • The Quarry – Iain Banks
  • Mr Lynch's Holiday – Catherine O'Flynn
  • Saints of the Shadow Bible – Ian Rankin
  • On the Map – Simon Garfield

2013 reading

  • Mr. Rinyo-Clacton's Offer – Russell Hoban
  • A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
  • The Chessmen – Peter May
  • Empire Antarctica – Gavin Francis
  • Republics of the Mind – James Robertson
  • Night Haunts – Sukhdev Sandhu
  • The Blind Giant – Nick Harkaway
  • Black Skies – Arnaldur Indridason
  • Red Plenty – Francis Spufford
  • Soonchild – Russell Hoban
  • Stonemouth – Iain Banks
  • The Memory Chalet – Tony Judt
  • Come Dance With Me – Russell Hoban
  • Whit – Iain Banks
  • The Professor of Truth – James Robertson
  • The Deadman's Pedal – Alan Warner
  • Where the Devil Can't Go – Anya Lipska
  • Espedair Street – Iain Banks
  • Transition – Iain Banks
  • The Submission – Amy Waldman
  • The Lewis Man – Peter May
  • Kleinzeit – Russell Hoban
  • Standing in Another Man's Grave – Ian Rankin
  • New Finnish Grammar – Diego Marani
  • Player One – Douglas Coupland
  • The Secret Race – Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle
  • HHhH – Laurent Binet
  • Running With the Kenyans – Adharanand Finn
  • The Blackhouse – Peter May
  • Animal People – Charlotte Wood

2012 reading

  • White Dog – Peter Temple
  • The Information – James Gleick
  • Absolute Friends – John le Carré
  • The Bicycle Book – Bella Bathurst
  • The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
  • The Way to Cold Mountain – Alec Finlay
  • Hypothermia – Arnaldur Indridason
  • Hawthorn and Child – Keith Ridgway
  • The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
  • Linger Awhile – Russel Hoban
  • The Emperor of All Maladies – Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Bad Debts – Peter Temple
  • The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
  • Backroom Boys – Francis Spufford
  • Open City – Teju Cole
  • A Summer of Drowning – John Burnside
  • Fremder – Russel Hoban
  • That Summer – Andrew Greig
  • American Gods – Neil Gaiman
  • Sightlines - Kathleen Jamie
  • Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
  • The Element - Ken Robinson
  • Blood Land - Alan Glynn
  • Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
  • Stop Stealing Dreams - Seth Godin
  • The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
  • The Return - Håkan Nesser
  • Pack Men - Alan Bissett
  • The Vagabond's Breakfast - Richard Gwyn
  • 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2011 - Larissa Behrendt et al.
  • The Gone-Away World - Nick Harkaway
  • The Cartographer - Peter Twohig
  • Thirteen Months to Christmas - Alison Leonard
  • See a Little Light - Bob Mould
  • David Boring - Daniel Clowes
  • Gods Without Men - Hari Kunzru
  • The Impossible Dead - Ian Rankin
  • The Bat Tattoo - Russell Hoban
  • Not the Last Goodbye - David Servan-Schreiber
  • Teach Us to Sit Still - Tim Parks
  • Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason

2011 reading

  • The Ossians - Doug Johnstone
  • Ghost Train to the Eastern Star - Paul Theroux
  • The Restoration Game - Ken MacLeod
  • Do It For Your Mum - Roy Wilkinson
  • The City and the City - China Mieville
  • Vertigo - WG Sebald
  • Borkmann's Point - Håkan Nesser
  • Legend of a Suicide - David Vann
  • Racing Through the Dark - David Millar
  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  • Déjà Vu - Ian Hocking
  • Outrage - Arnaldur Indriðason
  • To a Mountain in Tibet - Colin Thubron
  • Atlas of Remote Islands - Judith Schalansky
  • The Pirate's Dilemma - Matt Mason
  • Delay - Time Krabbé
  • Cargo - Jessica Au
  • Yellow Blue Tibia - Adam Roberts
  • Mister Wonderful - Daniel Clowes
  • And The Land Lay Still - James Robertson
  • Here Comes Everybody - Clay Shirky
  • Her Name Was Lola - Russell Hoban
  • Edgelands - Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley
  • The Execution Channel - Ken MacLeod
  • Smokeheads - Doug Johnstone
  • Fordlandia - Greg Grandin
  • Waking Up in Toytown - John Burnside
  • Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
  • Gutter 04 - Adrian Searle (ed)
  • Ill Fares the Land - Tony Judt
  • Remainder - Tom McCarthy
  • Just My Type - Simon Garfield
  • Map of the Invisible World - Tash Aw
  • Naming the Bones - Louise Welsh
  • True North - Gavin Francis
  • Serious Things - Gregory Norminton
  • Bike Snob: Systematically and Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling - Bike Snob NYC
  • The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his Friend Marilyn Monroe - Andrew O'Hagan
  • The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim - Jonathan Coe
  • The World Beneath - Cate Kennedy
  • Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos
  • Wilson - Daniel Clowes
  • Hand Me Down World - Lloyd Jones
  • Arctic Chill - Arnaldur Indriðason
  • In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut
  • Room - Emma Donoghue

2010 reading

  • Geoff Dyer - Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
  • What the Hell are You Doing? - David Shrigley
  • Gutter 03: The magazine of new Scottish Writing
  • Zero History - William Gibson
  • Fall Girl - Toni Jordan
  • Men in Space - Tom McCarthy
  • Death of a Ladies Man - Alan Bisett
  • Galileo's Dream - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd
  • The News Where You Are - Catherine O'Flynn
  • Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
  • The Broken Shore - Peter Temple
  • Started Early, Took my Dog - Kate Atkinson
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
  • Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
  • South of the River - Blake Morrison
  • Romanno Bridge - Andrew Greig
  • The Magnetic North - Sarah Wheeler
  • I play the drums in a band called okay - Toby Litt
  • The Stars in the Bright Sky - Alan Warner
  • Logicomix - Apostolos Doxiadis
  • Shadow of the Silk Road - Colin Thubron
  • Turbulence - Giles Foden
  • A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
  • The Savage Altar - Åsa Larsson
  • The People's Train - Tom Keneally
  • Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Cloud Culture - Charles Leadbeater
  • Waterlog - Roger Deakin
  • Kingdom Come - J G Ballard
  • Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography - Rodge Glass
  • Far North - Marcel Theroux
  • Smoke in the Room - Emily Maguire
  • A Lie About My Father - John Burnside
  • The Steep Approach to Garbadale - Iain Banks
  • The Olivetti Chronicles - John Peel
  • Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
  • Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Steig Larsson

2009 reading

  • Looking for Jake and Other Stories - China Miéville
  • The Complaints - Ian Rankin
  • Londonstani - Guatam Malkani
  • Bicycle Diaries - David Byrne
  • Air - Geoff Ryman
  • Tomorrow, We Ride - Jean Bobet
  • The Age of Kali - William Dalrymple
  • Tainted Blood - Arnaldur Indridason
  • The Incredible Adam Spark - Alan Bissett
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
  • Chronicler of the Winds - Henning Mankell
  • Among Muslims - Kathleen Jamie
  • Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
  • Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
  • Terra Nullius - Sven Lindqvist
  • The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt
  • The Beautiful Machine - Graeme Fife
  • The Fanatic - James Robertson
  • Travels with Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuściński
  • Electricity - Ray Robinson
  • The Devil's Footprints - John Burnside
  • London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
  • Voices - Arnaldur Indridason
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
  • The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
  • Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
  • My Revolutions - Hari Kunzru
  • Strangers - Taichi Yamada
  • Mobius Dick - Andrew Crumey
  • Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
  • The Discovery of France - Graham Robb
  • The Rider - Tim Krabbé
  • Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
  • Things I Didn't Know - Robert Hughes
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
  • The Blue Fox - Sjón
  • When Will There be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
  • Ascent - Jed Mercurio
  • The Book of Other People - Zadie Smith et al
  • Bad Blood - Jeremy Whittle
  • The Draining Lake - Arnaldur Indridason
  • American Journeys - Don Watson
  • the Boat - Nam Le
  • Old Men in Love - Alasdair Gray
  • Heroes, Villians and Velodromes - Richard Moore
  • Doors Open - Ian Rankin
  • Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield
  • Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

2008 reading

  • Midnight in Sicily - Peter Robb
  • Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson
  • In Another Light - Andrew Greig
  • Findings - Kathleen Jamie
  • De Niro's Game - Rawi Hage
  • anticancer - David Servan-Schreiber
  • Wildwood - Roger Deakin
  • Sputnik Caledonia - Andrew Crumey
  • Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living - Carrie Tiffany
  • Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
  • Addition - Toni Jordan
  • Slicing the Silence - Tom Griffiths
  • Rebus's Scotland - Ian Rankin
  • The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • We are Now Beginning our Descent - James Meek
  • One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
  • Typo - David Silverman
  • Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson
  • Confidence - Ben Richards
  • Miracles of Life - JG Ballard
  • The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany
  • The Wild Places - Robert MacFarlane
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
  • What is the What - Dave Eggers
  • Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk

Authors

  • Paul Auster
  • Ballardian
  • William Gibson
  • Alasdair Gray
  • Laura Hird
  • Kevin MacNeil
  • Alberto Manguel
  • Jonathan Raban
  • Will Self
  • Neal Stephenson

Periodicals

  • Australian Book Review
  • Cyclic Defrost
  • Five Dials
  • Granta
  • The Guardian Weekly
  • Gutter
  • Inside Story
  • London Review of Books
  • Loops
  • McSweeneys
  • meanjin
  • The Monthly
  • n + 1
  • New York Review of Books
  • overland
  • A Public Space
  • Quarterly Essay
  • The Quietus
  • Rouleur
  • Scottish Review of Books
  • Smoke
  • Spike
  • Things
  • Triple Canopy

Bookshops

  • Brunswick Street Bookstore
  • City Lights
  • Daunt Books
  • London Review of Books
  • Paperback Bookshop
  • Readings
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