Read This: Books under the Radar is a weekly post written by a guest author – often a friend of mine, someone I’ve met on my writerly travels, or an author I admire – who recommends three books they think deserve more recognition. If you’re interested in buying any of the books, please click on the covers and give these hidden gems some love. You can see the full list of books which have been selected, as well as the author’s latest book on Bookshop.org, where you can have a browse and buy any that take your fancy. Happy reading!
Read This: Nina Stibbe
One of the joys of being a published author is having proofs of other authors’ books sent me. Sometimes the quantity and how they glare at me from the shelf, unread, can be overwhelming, but occasionally there is an author I always want the proofs of, and this for me includes Nina Stibbe. And then we met at an event full of publishers and we recognised each and she made me laugh, just like her books make me laugh. Here’s what she has to say about herself:
Nina Stibbe is the author of seven books. Love, Nina – winner of the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the National Book Awards 2014, shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year – was adapted for BBC television. Her novels Man at the Helm (2014) and Paradise Lodge (2016) were both adapted for serialisation on BBC Radio 4 and shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Her third novel Reasons to be Cheerful (2019) won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award. A collection of stories and Articles; An Almost Perfect Christmas (2017) was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 over Christmas 2020 Her most recent novel One Day I Shall Astonish The World (2022) was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Her latest book Went to London, Took the Dog was published in 2023.
She is on twitter and Instagram as @ninastibbe
Here are her recommendations: