Emerald Fennell, who won
Emerald Fennell, who won an Oscar for her screenplay for
Promising Young Woman, will be speaking at the Hay
Festival Winter Weekend on 28 November.
Giving up the Ghost by Hilary
Mantel (2003)
Hilary Mantel is one of those impossible, once-in-a-lifetime
visionaries. She feels like she’s descended from William Blake, or
a medieval anchorite. Her horror writing is peerless, and there is
nothing quite so harrowingly visceral as her memoir.
Fourth Estate £8.99; The Week
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The Man Who Made Husbands
Jealous by Jilly Cooper (1991)
Jilly Cooper’s bucolic world of picturesque cottages, adorable
dogs and hardcore bonking cannot be beaten. Kind-hearted
serial-shagger Lysander Hawkley is one of the best in her
irresistible rogues’ gallery.
Corgi £10.99; The Week
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Nothing That Meets the Eye by
Patricia Highsmith (2002)
Patricia Highsmith’s stories are every bit as monstrous as her
novels, and this collection of unpublished stories is seething with
her usual exquisite, gleeful sadism.
Bloomsbury, out of print
The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013 by
Nick Cave (2013)
I write to music, and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are the band I
most frequently listen to while I do. Cave’s lyrics are just as
much a pleasure to read as they are to listen to. Gothic, violent
and beautiful.
Penguin £14.99; The Week
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo
Ishiguro (1989)
I love all of Ishiguro’s books, but this is the one that most
effectively rips your heart out. A perfect story of lost love and
regret. It is masterful at showing the foolishness (and, often,
cruelty) that is at the heart of British restraint.
Faber £8.99; The Week
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Persuasion by Jane Austen,
(1817)
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not
that I am too late.” There can’t be a single confession in all
fiction more devastating than this one. Jane Austen single-handedly
established the romcom as we know it – Tim and Dawn
from The Office are the love-children of Anne
Elliot and Captain Wentworth.
Wordsworth; The Week
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