The Bee Sting by Paul Murray.
Simply the best contemporary novel I've read, ever. Big Irish family drama; all modern life is here, and characters you really care about.
Remembering Peasants by Patrick Joyce.
Continuing the Irish theme, a beautifully written and poignant history of a vanished class.
The Invention of Essex by Tim Burrows.
An excellent book but here's more Ireland, briefly. I think the influence of Romany and Irish Gypsies and Travellers on modern Essex is underplayed.
Shorelines by Robert Jellicoe.
Over to Suffolk for this vivid oral history that brings back to life the voices of Southwold fishermen.
Beastly by Keggie Carew.
Some great storytelling in this thorough and often uncomfortable history of animals and us.
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