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The London Standard
|February 20, 2025
Our pick of the perfect books for the new season
Daffodils have started to appear and it feels as though we are finally emerging from what has been a particularly gloomy and chilly winter.
We can't promise you blue skies and cherry blossom from now on in, but below are the new titles currently giving us life, from a landmark record of queer existence to a cautionary novel about the perils of having a cleaner.
There's also a new book from the brilliant Malaysian novelist Tash Aw - the first in a planned quartet - and a new novel from the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Abdulrazak Gurnah. One of Britain's foremost writers, and a driver of the revival in nature writing, Robert Macfarlane, has a new book out, his first since 2019's spooky Underland. As we emerge from the "indoor months" these are the perfect books to persuade us straight back inside again to the sofa.
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Tash Aw
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