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

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I’m going on a UK book tour for Hunger and Thirst! Small Bomb at Dimperley by @lissakevans is a warm, funny, comfort read, full of brilliant characters who leap off the page and straight onto my list of best books of the year. I recently finished reading (listening to on @xigxag_official) The Correspondent by @virginia.l.evans and I loved it. It’s a novel of letters sent and received. Sybil Van Antwerp is in her 70s and has spent a lifetime writing to her best friend, her brother who lives in France, the son of a friend, several famous writers, a customer service agent and various others. We learn about her and her life in what she reveals or hides from others. She’s prickly but compassionate and gradually her own pain is exposed. Winchester & Hampshire friends! Come and celebrate the launch of Hunger and Thirst with me on 8th May @arcwinch. Hosted by @winchester_books_festival, there will be drinks and cake, and a competition to win some bookish goodies from @penguinfigtree. Copies of Hunger and Thirst will be available to buy from @pgwellsbookshop. And I’ll be interviewed by the lovely @margotgoodlife. I’d love it if you could join me. Delighted to be on the cover of @_thebookseller today with a great interview by Alice O’Keeffe, talking about Hunger and Thirst. And can you spot the fly?? I can’t decide what I think of The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits because there are bits I really liked (the ending, and the whole hospital section), and bits that worked less well (the main character’s visits to family and old friends), but maybe Markovits is being cleverer than I think. Here’s a very speedy video of some of the books that I’ve been sent recently and I’m looking forward to reading. Thanks to all the publishers, publishes and authors who have sent me these. My US publisher @tin_house is giving my backlist some love, so look out for their ads. This time it’s the turn of Unsettled Ground, my fourth novel. I’m still thinking about this one, and that’s a good thing. Adi is grieving the death of his 11-year-old son and the end of his marriage when he gets a job on a pacific island that he is supremely unqualified for: to shoot all the 3,000 or so goats that are killing the indigenous species. The goats are there because whalers dropped them off in order to have some food when they next came past the island. Can Adi rectify the environmental mistakes that humans have made?
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