For the SEVENTH year in a row, Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck are co-hosting Novellas in November as a month-long blogging and social media challenge. A novella technically contains 20,000 to 40,000 words, but to keep things simple they define it as any work under 200 pages.
I’m beginning with looking back at the novellas I have read since the end of last year’s Novellas in November.
- The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson
- The Aspern Papers by Henry James
- Homeward Bound by Hamza Yassin
- The Christmas Guest by by Peter Swanson
- The Rose and the Yew Tree by by Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
- Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
- Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
- The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
- Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon
- Maigret and the Old People by Georges Simenon
- Maigret’s Pickpocket by Georges Simenon
I hope to write more about the ones I haven’t reviewed yet.
These are some I haven’t read yet:
Maigret Defends Himself by Georges Simenon – When suspicion turns on Inspector Maigret for a crime he did not commit, he must use every investigative tool in his arsenal to clear his name.
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood – this follows shanker Thomas Flett as his quiet life in a small English coastal town is forever changed over the course of one fateful day.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter – Goodreads tells me this is part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter’s compassion and bravura style combine to dazzling effect. Full of unexpected humour and profound emotional truth.
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers – the fifth book in the Peter Wimsey series, in which he unravel the mysteries of ninety-year-old General Fentiman’s death.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking – his final thoughts on the universe’s biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work.
North to Paradise: A Memoir by Ousman Umar – The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona—and the path that led him home.
