It was the latest in a series of events, including giving birth, that left Heminsley feeling more and more dissociated from her own body. In 2017, Alexandra Heminsley was told that her partner was going to transition. Some Body to Love by Alexandra Heminsley (14 Jan) Plain is behind the Instagram account which has more than 190,000 followers, and this book promises to be a practical guide to bring order to the chaos.
And 2021 may prove to be as unexpected.īut Charlotte Plain’s Happy Planning will help you plan any aspect of your life, from the weekly shop and meal planning to budgeting and getting ready for big occasions. When we filled out our 2020 planners and bought our diaries for the year, we never imagined how the year would turn out. Happy Planning by Charlotte Plain (7 Jan) Hafsa Zayyan was co-winner of the inaugural winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. In London, Sameer is a high-flying young lawyer who is called back home after an unexpected tragedy. Just as he thinks he’s found his way, a new regime seizes power, threatening what he has built. In Uganda widower Hasan is struggling to run his family business. This debut novel moves between 1960s Uganda and present-day London, exploring the lives over several generations over two continents. We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan (21 Jan) This is a beautiful meditation on love, family and the world we live in. When Anna’s finger vanishes, followed by her knee, she begins to see others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. Condemned by their pity, she increasingly escape through her hospital window into visions of horror and light.
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan (14 Jan)īooker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan returns with a story of a family facing death against a backdrop of climate change and global catastrophe.Īnna’s aged mother is dying, if her three children would allow her to do so. What if, asks Audrain, motherhood is everything you feared instead of everything you hoped for? But Blythe’s husband, Fox, thinks she’s imagining everything, and doesn’t understand how Blythe’s childhood experiences have shaped her. It follows Blythe Connor, whose first child Violet is demanding and fretful, to the point where Blythe thinks there is something wrong. Image: Stuart SimpsonĪshley Audrain’s debut novel is a compulsive and addictive read about motherhood, which looks at what happens when women are not believed. Image: Ryan MacEachern/Penguin January Sathnam Sanghera new book Empireland publishes this January.
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