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Anita Desai
Rosarita (2025)

Picador , 2025
Paperback, 112 pages

Meeting at Cample
Weds 30 July  2025, 7-8.30 pm
The book cover for ‘Rosarita’ by Anita Desai. It is dark green with a white shape resembling an arched window taking up most of the cover. Inside is artwork of two women back to back, as though reflections of one another. They are partially filled in – one has a golden coat, while the other has dark hair and dark skin – and the rest of them is only outlined. Under the window’s arch, the title is displayed in curved writing. Below it is a golden, three-leaved symbol.
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The book, ‘Dream Count’, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie lying against a pale orange background. It has a white cover and abstract art of a tall flame which is blue in the very centre occupies most of the space.

#52
Chimanada Ngozi Adichie
Dream Count (2025)

The book cover for ‘CLEAR’ by Carys Davies. The background is a painting of a dark, cloudy night where a lonely man leans against a beached rowboat staring out at the waves. In the centre of the cover, stretching across it, tall white lettering displays the title. Near the top, in the clouds, is the author’s name in light blue lettering.

#51
Carys Davies
Clear (2024)

The book cover for ‘The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story’ by Olga Tokarczuk. The hardback book has a vibrant, cornflower blue front cover, and the title and author’s name are displayed in formal, white capital lettering. Beneath the author’s name, text reads, “Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.”

#50
Olga Tokarczuk
The Empusium (2024)

A purple and pink-tinted book cover with a distorted black and white image of people in the background. The title, “DJINNS” is displayed in tall, stretched letters. Above it, in smaller font, the author’s name, “FATMA AYDEMIR” is displayed.

#49
Fatma Aydemir
Djinns (2024)

#48
James McBride
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (2023)

A bright blue book cover where a slanted white oval stretches between diagonal corners of the cover. Inside the oval are two women’s faces in stark black and white. Text reads “Deborah Levy” and “August Blue” in the top right and bottom left corners.

#47
Deborah Levy
August Blue (2024)

A turquoise book cover against a bright yellow background. On the right of the book cover is an illustration of a woman and a yellow bird, in a paper scrapbook-like style. To her left is large white text reading “The Wren, The Wren”, and above that is large yellow text reading “Anne Enright”.

#46
Anne Enright
The Wren, The Wren (2024)

#45
Cecile Pin
Wandering Souls (2023)

#44
Claudia Piñeiro
Elena Knows (2021)

#43
Yiyun Li
The Book of Goose (2023)

#42
Per Petterson
Men in My Situation (2023)

#41
Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead (2023)

#40
Georgi Gospodinov
Cold Time Shelter (2023)

#39
Jessica Au
Cold Enough for Snow(2022)

#38
Geetanjali Shree
Tomb of Sand (2022)

#37
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Animal Life (2022)

#36
Elizabeth Strout
Oh William!(2021)

#35
Thuan
Chinatown (2022)

#34
Francisco Goldman
Monkey Boy (2022)

#33
Claudia Rankine
Just Us (2020)

#32
Andrey Kurkov
Grey Bees(2020)

#31
Anuk Arudpragasam
A Passage North (2021)

#30
Claire Fuller
Unsettled Ground (2022)

#29
Karen Jennings
The Island (2021)

#28
Louise Erdrich
The Night Watchman (2021)

#27
Sarah Moss
Summerwater (2020)

#26
Marion Poschmann
The Pine Islands (2019)

#25
Maggie O'Farrell
Hamnet (2021)

#24
Daisy Johnson
Everything Under (2019)

#23
Donatella Di Pietrantonio
A Girl Returned (2019)

#22
Nona Fernandez
Space Invaders (2013, trans 2019)

#21
Anne Enright
Actress (2020)

#20
Jenny Erpenbeck
Go, Went, Gone (2018)

#19
Jenny Offill
Weather (2020)

#18
Elin Willows
Inlands (2020)

#17
Gabriela Cabezón Camara
The Adventures of China Iron (2017, trans 2019)

#16
Deborah Levy
The Man Who Saw Everything (2020)

#15
Annie Ernaux
The Years (2008, trans 2019)

#14
Olga Tokarczuk
Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead (2009, trans 2018)

#13
Robbie Arnott
Flames (2018)

#12
Ben Lerner
10:04 (2014)

#11
Jokha Alharthi
Celestial Bodies (2010, trans 2019)

#10
Dorthe Nors
Mirror, Signal, Shoulder (2015, trans 2017)

#9
Keith Gessen
A Terrible Country (2018)

#8
Roy Jacobsen
The Unseen (2013, trans 2018)

#7
Madeleine Thein
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)

#6
Aminatta Forna
The Memory of Love (2010)

#5
Paul Auster
4321 (2017)

#4
George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo (2017)

#3
Anne Enright
The Green Road (2015)

#2
Ali Smith
Autumn (2016)

#1
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad (2016)

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