Today's books need little introduction, but one of them gets the prize for the most beautiful, most striking and most fitting jacket* of the year! That is, of course, Susan Hill's Howards End is on the Landing, subtitled 'A year of reading from home'.
Much talked about hither and yon, so there's probably no need to explain further here, but Simon says that in this Susan Hill "has written something delightfully, wisely, enchantingly bookish", and I can't wait to read it.
My thanks to Claire for letting me know that Susan was talking about the book on the radio the other day; you may be able to hear the programme by clicking here.
On to another very well known author (though one I've never read), Sarah Waters, and her Booker shortlisted The Little Stranger. A chilling ghost story set in a crumbling mansion in the early 1950s, numerous plaudits - that's enough to make me want to read it.
* - along with that of The Children's Book.
