Summer reading

Our next  instalment of suggestions for reading (and watching!)

Classic fiction

The sweet hereafter, by Russell Banks

Regeneration, by Pat Barker (part 1 of a trilogy)

Herzog, by Saul Bellow

2011 award winners

Let the great world spin, by Colum McCann – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

That deadman dance, by Kim Scott – Miles Franklin Literary Award

dvd

Captain Corelli’s mandolin, based on the novel by Louis de Bernieres, directed by John Madden

e-reading

All Clear: Volume 2,  and Blackout, by Connie Willis – winner of the 2011 Hugo Award for outstanding fiction or fantasy