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Winding Up the Week #448
An end of week recap “The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.” – Guy Davenport (born 23rd November 1927) This weekend marks the final two days of Book Week Scotland (17th to 23rd November), an annual nationwide event celebrating books, reading…
Title: Shy Creatures | Author: Clare Chambers | Publisher: Mariner Books (2024)
books I’ve read in 2025 📖 no. 063
Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers
"There was something luxurious in revisiting an old sorrow from the safe haven of present happiness.”
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small pleasures, clare chambers
1957, south-east suburbs of London.Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointe...
death of the author, nnedi okorafor
The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when...
the blueprint, rae giana rashad
In the vein of Octavia E. Butler and Margaret Atwood, a harrowing novel set in an alternate Unite...
pomegranate, helen elaine lee
The acclaimed author of The Serpent’s Gift returns with this “deep and beautiful” (Jaqueline Wood...
blessings, chukwuebuka ibeh
'It was difficult for Obiefuna to imagine what his life, what his family's lives, had been prior ...
sweetness in the skin, ishi robinson
A winning debut novel about a Jamaican girl determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional f...
the nickel boys, colson whitehead
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad,...
perspectives, laurent binet
Florence, New Year’s Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a ch...
pig, matilde pratesi
Sometimes Vale's colleagues invite her to drinks, but she never goes. She knows that Clara would...
love in exile, shon faye
‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be hu...
Review: Shy Creatures
Synopsis: In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park. Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with a charismatic, married…
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Even if it is a mistake, every mark is part of the picture.
— Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures: A Novel (Mariner Books, November 12, 2024)
Intensity had always been more important than permanence.
— Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures: A Novel (Mariner Books, November 12, 2024)
Perhaps the worst part of the experience was the certainty that there was nothing to be learnt from it and if she found herself in similar circumstances a week or a month from now, she would only do exactly the same.
– Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures
