Mrs Bridge The Easter Parade Ms Hempel Chronicles Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith
Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN Mrs Bridge The Easter Parade Ms Hempel Chronicles
Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN Mrs Bridge The Easter Parade
Ms Hempel Chronicles Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN Mrs Bridge

Jem Calder's go-to book recommendations for a friend

By Faber

Jem Calder's go-to book recommendations for a friend

By Faber

The following is a list of my go-to books to recommend to a friend. Today, reader, you are the friend I’m recommending them to.

Mrs Bridge

Mrs Bridge

Evan S. Connell

£9.99 £9.49

Crystalline elliptical writing. Has a just-as-good sequel, too.

The Easter Parade

The Easter Parade

Richard Yates

£9.99 £9.49

Awe-inspiring and unbearable. The last few pages left a permanent dent in me.

Ms Hempel Chronicles

Ms Hempel Chronicles

SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM

£7.99 £7.59

Warm, funny, cool. Very charming.

Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith

Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith

George Eliot

£9.99 £9.49

About as good as it’ll ever get. If you haven’t, you must read it.

Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN

Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN

Jem Calder

£14.99

'Reward System is an exhilarating and beautiful book by an extraordinarily gifted writer. Reading these stories, I found myself thinking newly and differently about contemporary life.' SALLY ROONEY