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That's Not My Age

I’m Alyson Walsh, a freelance journalist, former magazine fashion editor and author. And I strongly believe that it’s not about age, it’s about style. Here is an edit of my favourite books and reads recommended by friends of TNMA and podcast guests.

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business
The Young Man – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
Wednesday’s Child
Roman Stories
Mama’s Sleeping Scarf
Let Us Descend: An Oprah's Book Club Pick
Rouge
Our Strangers
The Fraud
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
The Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Sing, Unburied, Sing: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
Lessons in Chemistry
Dangerous Women: The Compelling and Beautifully Written Mystery About Friendship, Secrets and Redemption
Bad Relations
The Queen of Dirt Island
BOOTH: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
Kiftsgate Court Gardens: Three Generations of Women Gardeners
Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden
Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden
Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners
The Green Gardening Handbook: Grow, Eat and Enjoy
Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms
The Damp Garden
The Dry Garden
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
My Garden (Book)
The Edible Garden: How to Have Your Garden and Eat It
The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden
Honey & Spice: the heart-melting TikTok Book Club pick
Trespasses: The most beautiful, devastating love story you’ll read this year
Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism
Our Missing Hearts: ‘Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching’ Reese Witherspoon, a Reese’s Book Club Pick
Bad Summer People
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty: THE SUMMER'S HOTTEST ROMANCE
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?
Yellowface
The Guest
Birds: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Lucy by the Sea: From the Booker-shortlisted author of Oh William!
Cloudstreet
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton
The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Unsettled Ground: Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2021
Intimacies: A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021
Matrix
Mayflies: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
The Story of Art without Men: The instant Sunday Times bestseller Motherland: A Jamaican Cookbook Shrines of Gaiety: The Sunday Times Bestseller, May 2023
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The best books of 2022, chosen by brilliant authors and booksellers

Hot Milk
Young Mungo
Fault Lines: Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award
Elena Knows
Joan: The stunning feminist retelling of Joan of Arc
The Art of Repair: Mindful mending: how to stitch old things to new life
The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling
Americanah
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
The Paper Palace: The No.1 New York Times Bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick
Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 Shuggie Bain Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021
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Owner of Sevenoaks Bookshop, Fleur Sinclair's top books for Summer 22

Olive, Again: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Manhattan Beach Such a Fun Age: 'The book of the year' Independent
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Alyson recommends

Visible Mending: Repair, Renew, Reuse The Clothes You Love The Art of Repair: Mindful mending: how to stitch old things to new life Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act
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Best books for mending and repairing your clothes

The Salt Path
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
The Mission House
Letters to a Young Poet
I Feel Bad About My Neck: with a new introduction from Dolly Alderton
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Wolf Den: the stunning first novel reimagining the lives of the women of Pompeii
The Girl with the Louding Voice: The Bestselling Word of Mouth Hit That Will Win Over Your Heart
The Thread: 'Storytelling at its best' from million-copy bestseller Victoria Hislop
Commonwealth The Dutch House: Nominated for the Women's Prize 2020 State of Wonder
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In praise of Ann Patchett

Rise Up!: The Art of Protest What Can I Do?: The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix it Disability Visibility
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5 books to ignite your inner activist

Postcards From the Edge The Little Virtues Ladies Who Punch: Fifty Trailblazing Women Whose Stories You Should Know
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Podcast Recommendations

Hamnet A Promised Land Ottolenghi FLAVOUR
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That's Not My Age Top books from 2020

Modern Manners: Instructions for living fabulously well Oh William!: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
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Christmas gift guide

Sightlines A Gentleman in Moscow Beyond Black
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25 books to get you through the pandemic and beyond