In 1943 the war continued to rage on, one of the bloodiest battles of the entire war was fought as the Battle of Leningrad raged through January, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising takes place, and many of the great atrocities of the Holocaust took place.
Among all that, books were still published and read and today we’re featuring the bestselling novels of 1943, and some that didn’t make the list
Just press play and drag your screen around to look around the entire bookshop, and make sure you have the volume up, as Neil is telling us all about the features inside. Listen out for the Pratchett tribute too!
ow-ku-ran
Aware of what is going on; well informed.
Fashionable
Mid 18th century: from French, literally ‘in the (regular) course’.
kow-chant
(of an animal) lying with the body resting on the legs and the head raised.
Late Middle English: French, ‘lying’, present participle of coucher (see couch).
Born in New York City in 1947, Karen Lehman as she was born grew up feeling unloved by a hostile mother and unwanted by a father who abandoned her. Records show that Acker was born in 1947, but the Library of Congress has her birth as 1948 and most of the obituaries at the time of her death cited her birth as 1944.
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row-tik
Relating to or denoting a dialect or variety of English (e.g. in most of the US and south-western England) in which r is pronounced before a consonant (as in hard) and at the ends of words (as in far)
1960s: from Greek rhot-, stem of rho (see rho) + -ic.
All of these novels are by debut authors, and they should all have you on the edge of your seat from the very first page, as all the best suspense novels do!
The list, created by Blackwell’s booksellers, publishers, authors, and friends of the bookshop will mark an all year celebration of the anniversary of the bookshops.
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rek-on-dait
(of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse.
Mid 17th century: from Latin reconditus ‘hidden, put away’, past participle of recondere, from re- ‘back’ + condere ‘put together, secrete’.
The main literature prize this year goes to Richard Powers for his novel, The Overstory, described as “an ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them.”
Here’s that and the other Pulitzer Prize winners for literature 2019.
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