Andrew O'Hagan to Scarlett Thomas: 12 of the best books of 2024 so far Vintage/MacMillan/Grove Hardcover From a Dickensian state-of-the-nation novel to a "wildly original summer thriller", these are BBC Culture's picks of the best fiction of the year so far. Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan "A sensational state-of-the-nation novel with a cast of dozens" is how the Irish Independent …
After taking a stroll near Lewes in Sussex in 1932, Virginia Woolf wrote a striking phrase in her diary: “I want to walk, alone, and come to terms with my own head.” The quote appears as the epigraph to Harriet Baker’s Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Rosamond Lehmann. open image in gallery O’Hagan’s …
