Carole Beu recommends the books that should be beside my bed !!

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Dear Graham Faves & Raves 2015 This is the pile of books that needs to be beside your bed Rowing to Eden – Amy Bloom $25 – Spare, stunning short stories - ‘small masterpieces’ Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel $20 – Inventive, engrossing dystopian novel Havoc – Jane Higgins $26 – Gritty, gripping sequel to The Bridge ($26) for teens & adults The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood $37 – Blackly funny, deliciously satirical dystopian novel From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle [ ] – Kate De Goldi $30 – Delightful brother & sister film- makers Singing Home the Whale – Mandy Hager $20 – Gorgeous winner of the Book of the Year, Children & YA NZ Book Awards I Call Myself a Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty $40 – Powerful rallying- cry! The Party Line – Sue Orr $38 – Wonderful NZ rural novel with community secrets The Green Road – Anne Enright $37 – Clever, fractured Irish family; Man Booker Longlist 2015 My Life on the Road – Gloria Steinem $37 – Inspiring words from this revolutionary feminist A Year of Marvellous Ways – Sarah Winman $38 – Beautiful imagery, glorious old woman Taking My Mother to the Opera – Diane Brown $30 – Tender memoir told as a poetic narrative The Wolf Border – Sarah Hall $37 – Vivid novel of freedom, independence, wildness Girl at War – Sara Nović $38 – Illuminating, moving novel about the Bosnian-Croatian conflict Chappy – Patricia Grace $38 – Fabulous cross-cultural new novel from a New Zealand icon The Villa at the Edge of the Empire – Fiona Farrell $40 – Renewal after disaster (Christchurch & elsewhere), insightful & provocative The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante $37 – Fourth & final part of the dazzling Neapolitan quartet. Early One Morning – Virginia Baily $38 – Heart-wrenching; young Italian woman rescues Jewish boy A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara $38 – Astonishing, revelatory, Man Booker Shortlist 2015 Stripes! No, Spots! – Vasanti Unka $25 – Gorgeous, colourful picture book from an award-winning New Zealander