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A Visit from the Goon Squad

Claire and Tim’s top ten books of 2016

December 27, 2016 / Claire Fuller / 28 Comments

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It’s been a crazy year in the world and on a personal scale, but I’ve always come back to books. I read 76 this year, lots of proofs (thank you publishers), lots newly published, and I discovered many books and authors that I somehow missed reading years ago. This is a list of my favourite books I read this year, Continue reading →


I have written six novels: Hunger and Thirst, The Memory of Animals, Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, Unsettled Ground. Click 'About' in the top menu to find out more.

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It’s been just over two months since Hunger and Thirst was published in the UK and I’m delighted with how it’s gone. I’ve been on a UK book tour, with a few more events to come, I’ve met brilliant book sellers, wonderful authors and of course fantastic and enthusiastic readers. Kingfisher by @rozeamee. Messily human and hard to pin down. For such a short book Kingfisher covers a lot of ground: polyamory, the repercussions of child abuse, death, grief, love, illness, writing a novel and getting it published, sex. Here are a few novels that I’ve been sent, bought, and found. Are there any here that you have your eye on? Or let me know which you’ve read and loved, and which you recommend I should pick up first. Here are the opening lines from all six of my novels. Let me know in the comments below which you prefer and why. The Books of My Life in @gdnsaturday today. Thanks for the opportunity. Photo by @adrianharveyphotography. Featuring books by @lizstroutauthor @mirandajuly and @stephenking and more. @penguinfigtree penguinfigtree Sad Grownups by @amy_stuber_ from @stillhousepress is a collection of 17 short stories that my #LibrarianHusband and I read to each other. 5 stars for the writing. 5 stars for many of the stories (including Camp Heather, Day Hike, and my favourite - The Last Summer) = a 5 star book. In The Last Summer a poetry lecturer living alone and tending his garden has just heard he has a terminal cancer diagnosis (what do you expect? This collection is called Sad Grownups). Two young women students move into the flat above his, and they smoke weed together. The women are a certain sorority type with white wedge shoes and eyelash extensions and as wary of him as he is of them at first but a friendship is formed while he is summing up his life in his head, deciding where he will end his days. The three of them go out on a boat and in their simplicity in how they see the world they teach him something. He goes for a swim and thinks some more. It is the most stunning and moving story. A wonderful evening yesterday @bookhausbristol for Hunger and Thirst. @phillimilne asking the questions - great to see her again nine years after meeting @litfest_hk! And we had a couple of songs from @henryaylingguitarist - a Townes van Zandt (Swimming Lessons) and another written by Henry from his album- We Roamed Through the Garden (Unsettled Ground). So lovely to see @joleevers and @dagsbg_ and a whole Arvon crowd including @harrietleemerrion who decided to get some temporary fly tattoos (so temporary they looked like teddybears after three minutes!) Sign up now for the free 5-day writing challenge that I created for @arvon__ starting on Monday 20th July. Inspired by the National Year of Reading, I’ll ask you to start with a line from a published novel to create your own piece of work over five days. Follow the link in @arvon__’s bio to register. It seems I have a bit of a thing for novels which feature artists. Here are seven favourites, three of which were in my top reads for 2022, 2024, and 2025. I’m looking at you Take What You Need by @idranovey, Burntcoat by Sarah Hall, and The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman. But I would recommend them all, and if you’re also into fiction about artists, then you might like to take a look at Hunger and Thirst too.
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