Here's the second and last part of my 2015 round-up - the best books I read between July and December 2015. If you missed part 1, here it is! Books from this year The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood It's a tough call, but I think this just about takes the crown as my No.1 favourite book of absolutely everything I read in 2015. I still get warm fuzzy feelings when I think about it. Elspeth Conroy is a long-term resident at Portmantle, an island retreat for artists; the first part of the book shows her forming a relationship with a new member of the community, while the second tells us how she became a painter, and what happened to lead her to Portmantle. The third and fourth parts of the book then draw all the strands of these stories together in brilliant, surprising, entirely unexpected ways. A beautifully written, magical, completely engrossing novel about inspiration, imagination and the creation of art. Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen The first time I started readin
This year I've decided to split my list of favourites in two - one post for the first half of the year, one post for the second - so I don't miss out on including anything amazing I read in what remains of December. And because there are too many books to fit in one post. Here are the best books I read between January and June 2015. Books from this year The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato I have very happy memories of reading this on a beach, on an uninhabited island, in Portugal - no, wait, that isn't the recommendation. And it would have been brilliant no matter where and when I read it. The Ghost Network is about: a missing pop star named Molly Metropolis; her fans; situationism; psychogeography; and Chicago's public transport system. Part faux-academic text, part conspiracy thriller, part postmodern, ultra-meta reflection on fan culture, it was SO much fun to read, kept doing unexpected things, and had me on the edge of my seat all the way through. T