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2025, A Year in Books, Alba de Céspedes, Allegra Goodman, Andrew Miller, Another Man in the Street, Barbara Windsor, British Blonde, Carol White, Caroline Fraser, Caryl Phillips, Celia Dale, Crime Fiction, Crooked Cross, Daniel Kehlmann, Darryl W. Bullock, Diana Dors, Emma Donoghue, Eric Tucker, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, G.W. Pabst, Gabriele Tergit, Germany, Havoc, Isola, Italy, Joe Meek, Julie Christie, Louise Brooks, Love and Fury, Lynda Nead, Murderland, Noah Eaton, Other People, Pauline Boty, Rebecca Wait, Rickard Sisters, Ruth Ellis, Saint of the Narrows Street, Sally Carson, Shadow Ticket, The Director, The Effingers, The Harrow, The Land in Winter, The Paris Express, The Secret Painter, There's No Turning Back, This Slavery, Thomas Pynchon, William Boyle
I read Thomas Pynchon’s first novel, The Crying of Lot 49, for my American Literature module at university – and like most of the books I studied back then, I haven’t returned to it in thirty years. But after seeing Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, I started thinking maybe Pynchon wasn’t just another of those great white males I generally avoid like the plague. And that I might even enjoy reading one of his books, if the same kind of mayhem conjured on the screen could also be found within its pages.
In what has been a good year for fiction (if not our lived experience), Shadow Ticket was my most anticipated read of 2025. Continue reading
Tara Hanks 
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