What I'm reading
All 2023 and past years here...
December
The Northumbrians Dan Jackson
The Phoenix Bride Natasha Siegel
The Vaster Wilds Lauren Groff*
The Fraud Zadie Smith
November
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Kathleen Rooney
Venice Is a Fish Tiziano Scarpa
So Late in the Day Claire Keegan
You Are Here David Nicholls
October
Welcome to Glorious Tuga Francesca Segal
Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker
The Friend Sigrid Nunez
The Color Line Igiaba Scego
Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
January 2024
Big news at last that I know many have been waiting for: my new novel The Glassmaker will be published this year! It has been a long haul to reach this point, delayed partly by the pandemic and partly because it's a longer book spanning 500 years, and I play around with time in a way that took a while to get right. It is about Orsola Rosso, a girl from a glassmaking family on Murano, an island off Venice., and her long journey to becoming a glassmaker. Over centuries she meets real people: beadmaker Maria Barovier, Casanova, Josephine Bonaparte... Yes, that's right, centuries. She is 9 when the story begins in 1486, and in her late 60s in 2022. How? Time alla Veneziana. To figure that out, you'll have to read it!
The Glassmaker is published at different times this year:
June: France and USA
September: UK and Italy and Germany
October: Spain
Should you want to preorder, you can do so here:
Above are the two beautiful covers designed so far. Which is the USA, which UK?
