OUR BEST OF THE REST

And if you still have room on your list for a few more books, here are The Big Issue’s Best of the Rest reads of 2017…

Women and Power, Mary Beard (Profile Books). The eminent classicist hits the nail on the head over and over again as she picks over the bones of misogyny from Greek myth through to Hillary Clinton. Never have so many women shouted ‘That’s exactly it!’ so many times in one sitting. Seismic. Scorn, Paul Hoffman (Whitefox). Dark, vicious, at times bleak. And very funny. The priest-consuming comedy thriller with an incredible twist. Icebreaker, Horatio Clare (Chatto & Windus). A voyage into the Arctic on an icebreaking ship with one of Britain’s best writers of nature and place. You feel the cold leaping off the pages, but want to get to Finland. Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8, Naoki Higashida (translators David Mitchell, Keiko Yoshida; Sceptre) Follow-up to the feted The Reason I Jump,…

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The Big Issue United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, 18-12-2017

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