Fiction Uncovered 2012

   

     I wrote last year about the Fiction Uncovered initiative which seeks to promote some of the best of British fiction. This year's titles were announced a few months ago, but tomorrow sees a special event in London when Fiction Uncovered will have its own pop-up bookshop in conjunction with the floating independent retailer The Book Barge. Located at Broadway Market on Regent’s Canal in London, The Book Barge will host a special day of readings and Q&As from authors Tibor Fischer at 12.30pm and Peter Benson at 2pm, and visitors to the barge will be able to buy this year's promoted titles, each of which will come with a free book from last year's selection - first come, first served!

    Of the current novels, I have David Park's The Light of Amsterdam, about which I have heard very good things, waiting in my tbr pile -  "a deep and richly pleasurable reading experience", and I also like the sound of cressida Connolly's family saga My Former Heart, and When Nights Were Cold by Susanna Jones, described as "a delightful adventure full of feisty women, mountaineering, all kinds of escape and Edwardian derring-do, [which] is narrated by a classic unreliable narrator who looks back on friendships gone catastrophically wrong among the peaks of the Alps."

Comments

[Alison P]

I am a big fan of Fiction Uncovered. I read most of the books on their list last year and enjoyed them all. I'm looking forward to working my way through this year's list.

[AnnP]

I can recommend When Nights Were Cold. It's a very good read. I wish I lived near enough to go to the event - it sounds very interesting.

[Cornflower]

Many thanks for the recommendation, Ann.

[Cornflower]

It's good to see the spotlight turned on books other than those which are bound - for one reason or another - to get a lot of publicity.

[The Willoughby Book Club]

We saw Fiction Uncovered advertising this on their Twitter page yesterday and really wanted to go along, but we were unable to attend - it sounds like an amazing event! Great to see something a little different that really sparks genuine interest.