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The cover of Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute

Stop! Look! Listen! Dan Crosby's Reading Recommendation

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Although not as well known as On The Beach or A Town Like Alice, and though published 65 years ago, Nevil Shute's modest masterpiece with the unassuming title, Trustee From the Toolroom, is very much a novel for our times, telling the story of a seemingly boring everyman who risks his life to travel to the other side of the world in order to assure an inheritance for his orphaned neice
The cover of The Old Man and The Sea which features an old man in a red boat with a white wave cresting over him in the shape of a fish's tail against a red sky.

Stop! Look! Listen! Kevin Andrew Heslop's Reading Recommendation

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—Which, pugnacious drunkard, of course. And happened to write a fable of—First, let’s recall the plot: man catches fish sharks eat. Second—I’m already bored of—The endeavour for its own sake—a touchstone—rebuking critics as he the writer the sun of whose legend was also setting already.  And then of course there is the matter of style. 

Stop! Look! Listen! Yolande House's Reading Recommendation

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Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller is a great example of a hybrid memoir. There are photos, poems, flash prose, cultural criticism, and a Kafka-esque surrealist short story interspersed throughout the book. An earlier and slightly different version of the manuscript was first published in German in 2020. 

A photo of Robert Gibbs sitting in a chair which was taken in Robert’s backyard where he loved to sit and gain inspiration for his writing.
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