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Kevin Klehr Author Of The Midnight Man

From Kevin's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Kevin's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Kevin Klehr Why Kevin loves this book

This is a raw tale told against the backdrop on 1980s Glasgow. It cleverly uses two timelines to converge at one important event, while Douglas Stuart's prose helps you feel, taste, sense this dysfunctional family and a society with underlying violence.

By Douglas Stuart ,

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4 authors picked Young Mungo as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Both a page-turner and literary tour de force, it is a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Kevin Klehr Author Of The Midnight Man

From Kevin's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Traveller Film buff Happily married HiFi nerd Gay

Kevin's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Kevin Klehr Why Kevin loves this book

This story explores how women feel invisible as they age by creating a condition where the characters literally become invisible. Then it weaves practical advice into the narrative on how to feel seen as one gets older. This fascinated me because just before I read it, a man in his 70s asked me my age. When I replied he said, "Just wait until you start to become invisible." Not long after there were several times where I knew what he meant.

By Jane Tara ,

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1 author picked Tilda Is Visible as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A self-help book wrapped in a funny, poignant novel, Tilda Is Visible is for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and found fault within themselves.

Tilda Finch is a successful businesswoman, a mother to two wonderful adult daughters, and besides an unexpected divorce, she’s living a relatively happy life. Until she wakes up one morning and her finger seems to have disappeared. She thinks back to the kombucha she drank the night before—perhaps it was spiked? Studying herself in the mirror, she discovers one of her ears has also disappeared! She rushes to the doctor, who after a…


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