Autumn Reads Podcast: Durham Book Festival 2020

New Writing North

Join the Durham Book Festival team, as they discuss some of the books they’ve loved reading in 2020. In this special podcast, Claire, Rebecca and Grace, share their highs and lows of reading in lockdown and highlight some of the new titles they are most looking forward to delving into this Autumn. Books mentioned in the podcast: How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang Pew by Catherine Lacey The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld Djinn Patrol on the Purlple Line by Deepa Anappara Humankind by Rutger Bregman Shadow State by Luke Harding Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Passing of Friends by Anne Applebaum Little Eyes by Samantha Schweblin Intimations by Zadie Smith The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Xstabeth by David Keenan The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball The Less Dead by Denise Mina The Searcher by Tana French Inside Story by Martin Amis Let’s Do It: the Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood by Jasper Rees Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe Love After Love by Ingrid Persuad The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Mexican Gothic by Slivia Moreno-Garcia The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams Daddy by Emma Cline The Mission House by Carys Davies Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg