January, 2020 - theguardianbook

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theguardianbook journal in January, 2020.

7:30a	theguardianbook	Providence Lost by Paul Lay review – the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate
10:00a	theguardianbook	'I'm on the hunt for humour and hope': what will authors be reading in 2020?
10:00a	theguardianbook	Top 10 books about new beginnings
12:00p	theguardianbook	Diary of a Murderer by Kim Young-ha review – dark stories from South Korea
3:10p	theguardianbook	TS Eliot’s intimate letters to confidante unveiled after 60 years

2nd

6:45a	theguardianbook	Latin American female writers 'get literary place they deserve' in new collection
7:30a	theguardianbook	Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid review – an essential new talent
9:00a	theguardianbook	Confession With Blue Horses by Sophie Hardach review – behind the Berlin Wall
11:58a	theguardianbook	The Reality Bubble by Ziya Tong review – blind spots and hidden truths
12:45p	theguardianbook	MC Beaton, multimillion-selling author of Agatha Raisin novels, dies aged 83
2:01p	theguardianbook	Meaty by Samantha Irby review – scatological essays

3rd

7:00a	theguardianbook	'I was half-insane with anxiety': how I wrote myself into a breakdown
7:30a	theguardianbook	How the Brain Lost Its Mind review – beyond hysteria
8:00a	theguardianbook	From Geoff Dyer to Nietzsche: the best books to inspire wanderlust
9:00a	theguardianbook	Nietzsche and the Burbs review – deadpan philosophical comedy
12:00p	theguardianbook	The Living Days by Ananda Devi review – a tale of exploitation
2:00p	theguardianbook	Architecture in Global Socialism by Łukasz Stanek review – a book that rewrites the cold war
6:45p	theguardianbook	Wartime Albert Camus letter lays bare his Vichy-era anguish

4th

7:30a	theguardianbook	The Death of Jesus by JM Coetzee review – a boy who challenges the world
8:00a	theguardianbook	2020 in books: a literary calendar
9:00a	theguardianbook	Braised Pork by An Yu review – a startlingly original debut
10:58a	theguardianbook	From Mary Bennet to Thomas Cromwell: how novelists make us love unlikeable characters
11:00a	theguardianbook	The best recent poetry – review roundup
12:00p	theguardianbook	'I complained bitterly throughout': Sarah Perry on how she wrote The Essex Serpent
3:00p	theguardianbook	Vigdis Hjorth: ‘I won’t talk about my family… I’m in enough trouble’
5:13p	theguardianbook	Put that in your pipe: why the Maigret novels are still worth savouring
6:00p	theguardianbook	Book clinic: what are the best titles to help us through tough times?

5th

7:00a	theguardianbook	In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado – review
9:00a	theguardianbook	Crisis of Conscience by Tom Mueller review – what drives a whistleblower?
11:00a	theguardianbook	A Good Man by Ani Katz review – sordidly gripping
1:00p	theguardianbook	QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling review – a hit-and-miss riff on capitalist ills

6th

7:00a	theguardianbook	The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan review – psychologist in the dock
9:00a	theguardianbook	'I want this book to be politically useful’: the explosive memoir exposing Silicon Valley
9:00a	theguardianbook	Little Lulu: Working Girl by John Stanley review – riot girl in a little red dress
11:00a	theguardianbook	American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins review – panic and pathos on the run from the cartel
3:00p	theguardianbook	Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
7:30p	theguardianbook	Jonathan Coe wins Costa prize for ‘perfect’ Brexit novel

7th

7:00a	theguardianbook	Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur review – Mum’s little helper… with a difference
7:00a	theguardianbook	Eoin Colfer on returning to Artemis Fowl – books podcast
9:00a	theguardianbook	Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid – charming, authentic, entertaining
9:00a	theguardianbook	'Nobody in Tesco buys spy books by women': how female authors took on the genre
12:00p	theguardianbook	‘We’ve always been honest about our weight loss’: the Pinch of Nom chefs on their recipe for success
12:53p	theguardianbook	Romantic fiction awards cancelled after racism row prompts mass boycott
4:49p	theguardianbook	The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas author defends work from criticism by Auschwitz memorial
4:51p	theguardianbook	Elizabeth Wurtzel, journalist and author of Prozac Nation, dies aged 52
6:00p	theguardianbook	Half of a Yellow Sun summons a gilded age as well as an atrocious war

8th

7:30a	theguardianbook	Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr review – a masterpiece of self-exploration
8:58a	theguardianbook	One of Us Is Next by Karen M McManus review – a thrilling sequel
10:00a	theguardianbook	Square Haunting by Francesca Wade review – five women who changed history
11:58a	theguardianbook	Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton review – 180 nail-biting minutes
12:17p	theguardianbook	Top 10 books about toxic masculinity
3:00p	theguardianbook	With Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel blew open the memoir as we know it
3:21p	theguardianbook	Haunts of the Black Masseur author Charles Sprawson dies aged 78
4:45p	theguardianbook	A Case of Exploding Mangoes 'targeted by authorities after Urdu translation'

9th

7:30a	theguardianbook	A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind review – should we be delighted or terrified?
9:00a	theguardianbook	The Doll by Ismail Kadare review – a fascinating study of difficult love
11:58a	theguardianbook	Good Husbandry by Kristin Kimball review – a new life on a community farm

10th

12:01a	theguardianbook	‘People are so happy we exist’: indie bookshops grow despite retail slump
5:45a	theguardianbook	John le Carré wins $100,000 prize for 'contribution to democracy'
5:59a	theguardianbook	In focus: the best books to reveal your blind spots
7:30a	theguardianbook	Threshold by Rob Doyle review – a wild journey
9:00a	theguardianbook	A Good Man by Ani Katz review – a morbidly compelling debut
9:58a	theguardianbook	The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan review – psychiatry’s dubious past
10:00a	theguardianbook	Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved changed my life’
11:01a	theguardianbook	Carmen Maria Machado: ‘I wished that I had a police report, or a black eye'
12:20p	theguardianbook	Don Winslow and Stephen King offer $200K if White House holds a press briefing

11th

7:30a	theguardianbook	You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy review – a modern epidemic of self-absorbed talk
8:00a	theguardianbook	My New Year reading resolution? Less guilt for giving up on books
8:58a	theguardianbook	The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow review – what happened to Mary after Pride and Prejudice
9:01a	theguardianbook	William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was'
10:00a	theguardianbook	Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen review – sacrifice and strength in postwar Oslo
10:00a	theguardianbook	The House of Mirth: Jennifer Egan on Edith Wharton’s masterpiece
12:00p	theguardianbook	Backstop Land by Glenn Patterson review – the 'unreal' Brexit era
6:00p	theguardianbook	Jo Nesbø: ‘We should talk about violence against women’
6:00p	theguardianbook	Book clinic: where are the romantic novels that aren’t riddled with cliches?

12th

7:00a	theguardianbook	Square Haunting by Francesca Wade review – female autonomy between the wars
8:00a	theguardianbook	Northern writers on why a north-specific prize is more important than ever
9:00a	theguardianbook	Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr review – fitting legacy of a blazing talent
10:15a	theguardianbook	Race, literature, lovers ... and fake breasts: my chats with Elizabeth Wurtzel
11:00a	theguardianbook	The Weight of a Piano by Chris Cander review – tale of transgenerational trauma
1:00p	theguardianbook	This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – life on the precipice

13th

6:30a	theguardianbook	Going local: how to make a big difference in small ways
7:00a	theguardianbook	Agency by William Gibson review – back to a frightful future
9:00a	theguardianbook	You’re Not Listening review – why we must listen to our opponents
10:00a	theguardianbook	Poem of the week – Ghazal: Myself by Marilyn Hacker
3:00p	theguardianbook	Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
7:30p	theguardianbook	British-Trinidadian dub poet Roger Robinson wins TS Eliot prize

14th

6:00a	theguardianbook	Samantha Harvey on her year without sleep – books podcast
7:00a	theguardianbook	The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey review – a good night’s sleep? In her dreams
9:00a	theguardianbook	Young adult books round-up – review
12:01p	theguardianbook	'Why would I close the door to a queer person?' LGBTQ fantasy comes of age
3:28p	theguardianbook	Half of a Yellow Sun is a masterpiece in balancing truth and fiction
3:57p	theguardianbook	Roger Scruton: a brilliant philosopher and self-conscious controversialist \| Seamus Perry
9:34p	theguardianbook	Stephen King faces backlash over comments on Oscars diversity

15th

6:00a	theguardianbook	150m Shades of Grey: how the decade's runaway bestseller changed our sex lives
7:30a	theguardianbook	Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener review – beggars and tech billionaires
9:00a	theguardianbook	American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins review – a desperate Odyssey
12:00p	theguardianbook	In the Dream House review – a raw account of an abusive lesbian relationship
12:27p	theguardianbook	Top 10 books about trouble in Los Angeles \| Steph Cha
1:57p	theguardianbook	Tom Watson’s betrayal thriller – and other politicians who vent in fiction
2:00p	theguardianbook	Audible settles copyright lawsuit with publishers over audiobook captions
2:00p	theguardianbook	The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U review – dashed hopes
5:39p	theguardianbook	Oh what a night! Twitter brings £1,000 worth of orders to empty bookshop

16th

7:30a	theguardianbook	Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer review – gloriously innovative
8:58a	theguardianbook	The Syrian Revolution by Yasser Munif review – an early phase of a third world war?
11:22a	theguardianbook	TS Eliot prize-winner Roger Robinson: ‘I want these poems to help people to practise empathy’
12:00p	theguardianbook	A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende review – a sweeping historical saga
1:02p	theguardianbook	Anthony Bourdain's final book to be published this year
1:03p	theguardianbook	Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books
2:00p	theguardianbook	Tickbox by David Boyle review – thinking inside the box
7:14p	theguardianbook	JRR Tolkien's son Christopher dies aged 95

17th

6:00a	theguardianbook	'Ghost poetry': fight over Samuel Beckett's Nobel win revealed in archives
7:00a	theguardianbook	From Meghan Markle to Princess Margaret: books to understand the royal family
7:30a	theguardianbook	Sabotage by Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan review – the business of finance
10:00a	theguardianbook	Sara Collins: ‘I can’t even start James Joyce’s Ulysses, let alone finish it'
12:57p	theguardianbook	'It's radical': how Sally Rooney's Normal People caught a TV moment
1:37p	theguardianbook	Discworld fans are right to be nervous about the BBC's 'punk rock' The Watch

18th

7:00a	theguardianbook	Thank you book Twitter – you are so much nicer than Netflix Twitter
7:30a	theguardianbook	The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste review – remembering Ethopia’s female soldiers
8:00a	theguardianbook	‘How to live and die well’: what I learned from working in an NHS hospice
9:00a	theguardianbook	The Self Delusion by Tom Oliver review – how we are connected and why that matters
10:58a	theguardianbook	Jacqueline Woodson: ‘It’s important to know that whatever moment we’re in, it's not the first time'
11:59a	theguardianbook	'Hong Kong is at a crossroads': inside prison with the student who took on Beijing
6:00p	theguardianbook	Maaza Mengiste: ‘The language of war is always masculine’
6:00p	theguardianbook	Book clinic: excellent shorter novels

19th

5:30a	theguardianbook	Richard Layard: ‘It's in politicians' self-interest to make policies for happiness’
7:00a	theguardianbook	Black Wave by Kim Ghattas review – insightful history of Middle Eastern conflict
9:00a	theguardianbook	Threshold by Rob Doyle review – chasing intangible chemical highs
11:00a	theguardianbook	Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth review – trenchant satire of screen addiction
1:00p	theguardianbook	Grown Ups by Marian Keyes – one big happy family?

20th

6:30a	theguardianbook	The age of the individual must end – our world depends on it \| Tom Oliver
7:00a	theguardianbook	Pills, Powder and Smoke by Antony Loewenstein; Say Why to Drugs by Dr Suzi Gage – review
8:45a	theguardianbook	A Pushkin theme park? How about Discworld World, StephenKingLand …
9:00a	theguardianbook	Miss Austen by Gill Hornby; The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow – review
10:00a	theguardianbook	Poem of the week: Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay
11:00a	theguardianbook	States of the Body Produced by Love by Nisha Ramayya review – a difficult beginning
1:32p	theguardianbook	Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
2:52p	theguardianbook	Lee Child letting go of his creation is a tale told by other bestsellers
3:52p	theguardianbook	Nineteen Eighty-Phwoar: the truth about George Orwell's romantic 'arrangements'
5:37p	theguardianbook	Christopher Tolkien obituary

21st

7:00a	theguardianbook	Dear Life by Rachel Clarke review – somewhere towards the end
9:00a	theguardianbook	Poetry book of the month: Arias by Sharon Olds – review
10:13a	theguardianbook	Dedicated followers: collectors of book inscriptions share their notes
11:15a	theguardianbook	My greatest honor: I wrote a book that touched people living in poverty
11:47a	theguardianbook	Half of a Yellow Sun ends abruptly - but at the right time
2:42p	theguardianbook	Ballet Shoes gets 21st-century update from Carrie Hope Fletcher

22nd

7:30a	theguardianbook	The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather review – the hero who infiltrated Auschwitz
8:58a	theguardianbook	Agency by William Gibson review – a world in an instant
10:00a	theguardianbook	Highfire by Eoin Colfer review – a joyous fantasy for grownups
11:04a	theguardianbook	Jeanine Cummins on her explosive new novel, American Dirt
11:20a	theguardianbook	I am the 'book murderer', but I tear them apart out of love
12:00p	theguardianbook	Top 10 political travel books
12:44p	theguardianbook	Extract from Hunger Games prequel sparks anger among fans
2:00p	theguardianbook	Liz Moore: 'It made a big impression to know early what addiction was'

23rd

7:30a	theguardianbook	Can We Be Happier? by Richard Layard review – a breathless tribute to the “science of happiness”
8:59a	theguardianbook	Low by Jeet Thayil review – a lost weekend in Mumbai
9:58a	theguardianbook	Forbidden territory: the best books about land and power
10:00a	theguardianbook	Pine by Francine Toon review – a chilling gothic thriller
11:06a	theguardianbook	Is the word 'polygraph' hiding a bare-faced lie?
12:00p	theguardianbook	One of Them by Michael Cashman review – a heroic and heartbreaking memoir
3:27p	theguardianbook	Charles Sprawson obituary

24th

7:30a	theguardianbook	This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – a sublime sequel
9:00a	theguardianbook	Correspondents by Tim Murphy review – a tale of New England’s Arab migrants
9:58a	theguardianbook	Isabel Allende: ‘The Female Eunuch confirmed I was not crazy’
10:00a	theguardianbook	Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur review – the reader wants to scream
10:32a	theguardianbook	Story of woman who heads south takes prize for 'evoking spirit of the north'
11:58a	theguardianbook	Eimear McBride: ‘Women are really angry. I feel a deep, burning sense of injustice at the way women
2:53p	theguardianbook	Publishers defend American Dirt as claims of cultural appropriation grow

25th

7:30a	theguardianbook	The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder by Karen Harvey review – a simple case?
9:00a	theguardianbook	Exclusive: John Bercow on friends, enemies and the drama of Brexit
11:00a	theguardianbook	From fig leaves to pinups: Mary Beard on the evolution of the nude
2:00p	theguardianbook	Happy ever after: why writers are falling out of love with marriage
6:00p	theguardianbook	Tracey Thorn: ‘I went through a phase of carrying Camus under my arm’

26th

7:00a	theguardianbook	Unfree Speech by Joshua Wong review – a call to arms for the Snapchat generation
8:00a	theguardianbook	Introducing our 10 best debut novelists of 2020
9:00a	theguardianbook	Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener review – bullies, greed and sexism in Silicon Valley
11:00a	theguardianbook	Inside the Critics’ Circle by Phillipa K Chong review – rickety scaffolding

27th

7:00a	theguardianbook	Orwell: A Man of Our Time by Richard Bradford review – undone by its own premise
9:00a	theguardianbook	Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson review – poetic and profound
10:00a	theguardianbook	Poem of the week: Sycamore Gap by Zoe Mitchell
11:03a	theguardianbook	Philip Pullman calls for boycott of Brexit 50p coin over 'missing' Oxford comma
12:35p	theguardianbook	Bae Suah: 'I was practising my typing and wrote my first story by accident'
3:00p	theguardianbook	Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
3:33p	theguardianbook	Stephen Joyce, last direct descendant of James Joyce, dies aged 87
6:08p	theguardianbook	Margaret Atwood to publish first collection of poetry in over a decade

28th

7:00a	theguardianbook	Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride review – evasive and claustrophobic
9:00a	theguardianbook	The best recent thrillers – review roundup
10:00a	theguardianbook	Jonathan Coe and Sara Collins on their Costa-winning novels – books podcast
10:57a	theguardianbook	Paulo Coelho deletes draft of children's book collaboration with Kobe Bryant
11:58a	theguardianbook	Reading group: which Georges Simenon book should we read in February?
11:58a	theguardianbook	Mazel Tov by JS Margot review – a memoir of mutual affection
2:07p	theguardianbook	Stephen King says Oscars are 'rigged in favor of the white folks'
4:03p	theguardianbook	Graphic novel New Kid wins prestigious Newbery Medal
7:30p	theguardianbook	Costa prize: Jack Fairweather wins book of the year with The Volunteer

29th

7:30a	theguardianbook	A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister review – from blindfolds to bikes
9:00a	theguardianbook	The Secret Guests by BW Black review – John Banville’s royal yarn
12:14p	theguardianbook	Top 10 books about the human cost of war \| Maaza Mengiste
1:53p	theguardianbook	When fonts fight, Times New Roman conquers
4:48p	theguardianbook	Dispatches from hell: the extraordinary story of the hero who infiltrated Auschwitz

30th

7:30a	theguardianbook	How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford review – how genetics can combat prejudice
9:00a	theguardianbook	Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara review – a dazzling debut
9:59a	theguardianbook	The Quarry by Ben Halls review – on the frontline of breadline Britain
11:37a	theguardianbook	Is the era of Brexit and Trump an age of ‘peace’?
11:41a	theguardianbook	Nora Roberts: ‘I could fill all the bookstores in all the land’
12:00p	theguardianbook	A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders – the curious history of alphabetical order
2:00p	theguardianbook	Francine Toon : 'Witches are empowered women'
2:29p	theguardianbook	US publishing remains 'as white today as it was four years ago'

31st

12:59a	theguardianbook	The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – a slave’s story
9:00a	theguardianbook	Beyond American Dirt: the best books to understand Latinx culture
9:00a	theguardianbook	Art Is a Tyrant by Catherine Hewitt review – the radical life of Rosa Bonheur
9:58a	theguardianbook	Jeet Thayil: ‘The last book that made me laugh? A book of poems by Narendra Modi’
11:58a	theguardianbook	Little Bandaged Days by Kyra Wilder review – a mother falls apart
11:59a	theguardianbook	Susan Choi: ‘A lot of people seem to feel very seen by the book’
1:54p	theguardianbook	Rare Charlotte Brontë ‘little book’ to go on show at Haworth

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