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Paperbacks to Look Out For in February 2025: Part Two

February’s second batch of paperbacks includes three I’ve already read, beginning with one likely to be a Marmite book with knobs on for many readers. One of my books of last year, Helen Oyeyemi’s inventive, playful Parasol Against the Axe follows a hen party which has descended on Prague, Oyeyemi’s beloved adopted home and the […]

Cover image for Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

Paperbacks to Look Out For in February 2025: Part One

20 January 2025 / 33 Comments

Enough paperback goodies to brighten up what’s probably my least favourite month, I’m pleased to say, beginning with Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road billed as a state-of-the-nation novel which I always find appealing. Opening in May 2021, it follows Campbell Flynn, an art historian and celebrity intellectual who enjoys stirring things up, and Milo Manghasa, his

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