{"id":134845,"date":"2024-12-08T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134845"},"modified":"2024-12-08T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T14:27:12","slug":"anthony-cumminss-best-fiction-of-2024-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134845","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Cummins\u2019s best fiction of 2024 | Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700;\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">S<\/span>equels and reboots were the trend: Pat Barker, Percival Everett, Nick Harkaway and Colm To\u00edb\u00edn all went back for seconds one way or another. David Nicholls\u2019s outdoor romcom <em><a href=\"https:\/\/guardianbookshop.com\/you-are-here-9781444715446\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">You Are Here<\/a><\/em> and Samantha Harvey\u2019s Booker-winning <em><a href=\"https:\/\/guardianbookshop.com\/orbital-9781529922936\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Orbital<\/a><\/em>, bestsellers both, spoke to a hunger for escape that was forged in lockdown, still on writers\u2019 minds. What\u2019s ahead in 2025, I don\u2019t dare hazard, but here\u2019s what I liked best from a year in which I was drawn, I now see, to character-led novels of relationships, not always dysfunctional.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/guardianbookshop.com\/intermezzo-9780571365463\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Intermezzo<\/a> by Sally Rooney <\/strong>(Faber)<br \/>She\u2019s too shy; you can tell she didn\u2019t study creative writing; her characters never stop eating bread&#8230; just three of the frankly batshit statements lately uttered amid the discourse frenzy that greets this gifted young novelist\u2019s every last move. Hats off to her for blocking out the noise to rediscover her glorious A-game in a tale of two Irish-Slovak brothers struggling to emerge from the shadow of their parents\u2019 long-ago divorce. So funny and observant about love of many different kinds, this is the book I enjoyed most in 2024.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"090bae05-ccd5-4210-949c-c6270f11052e\" data-spacefinder-role=\"thumbnail\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-13rnsx0\"\/>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/guardianbookshop.com\/the-spoiled-heart-9781787304079\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">The Spoiled Heart<\/a> by Sunjeev Sahota <\/strong>(Harvill Secker)<br \/>One of Britain\u2019s finest writers wrung page-turning drama from the unsexy-sounding subject of a trade union election in Derbyshire. Two leadership hopefuls, both British Asian &#8211; one a middle-aged factory worker, the other a privately educated diversity officer &#8211; fight dirty over their contradictory visions of leftwing politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/guardianbookshop.com\/godwin-9780008284046\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Godwin<\/a> by Joseph O\u2019Neill<\/strong> (4th Estate)<br \/>Another novel that shouldn\u2019t work but does. Half of it is a drily compelling workplace procedural about bickering pharmaceutical grant writers \u2013 see what I mean? \u2013 while the other half is a transcontinental chase caper involving an African football prodigy. Both narratives twine around a murky family psychodrama akin to a wicked stepmother fairytale, as if O\u2019Neill hadn\u2019t already given us enough.<br \/><strong><br \/><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/guardianbookshop.com\/dear-dickhead-9781529430806\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Dear Dickhead<\/a> by Virginie Despentes (translated by Frank Wynne) <\/strong>(MacLehose Press)<br \/>Lockdown met #MeToo in one of the most entertaining novels to have emerged from either. Centred on the testy bond between a washed-up actor and a cancelled novelist who become pen pals after one slags off the other on Instagram, it\u2019s impish as well as sincere, written with all the lapel-grabbing bluntness you\u2019d expect from the title.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"37036dbe-d352-4e43-b2f9-cb6b851d778b\" data-spacefinder-role=\"thumbnail\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-13rnsx0\"\/>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/guardianbookshop.com\/liars-9781529062762\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Liars<\/a> by Sarah Manguso <\/strong>(Picador)<br \/>Novels of female rage have become something of a marketing cliche in recent years \u2013 ditto, tell-all autofiction that cuts close to the bone \u2013 but don\u2019t let any of that put you off this grippingly acrid tale of marital breakup, in which a wounded ex-wife recounts sleepwalking into a disastrously draining years-long union.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"one-for-my-stocking\" class=\"dcr-n4qeq9\"><strong>One for my stocking<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">I\u2019ve been snacking on Martin Amis\u2019s old <em>Observer<\/em> journalism &#8211; the time he got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2020\/nov\/08\/from-the-archive-madonna-cancels-martin-amis-1992\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">ghosted by Madonna<\/a>; his report on Manchester United\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/theobserver\/1999\/may\/30\/featuresreview.review\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">last-gasp treble win<\/a> \u2013 and I want to go back to the novels, recently reissued with A-list intros. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/article\/2024\/jun\/04\/where-to-start-with-rachel-cusk\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Rachel Cusk<\/a> once said of Amis that he was \u201csomething of an honorary woman: the attention due his work is snagged, instead, on his self\u201d, so I\u2019d like to check out what she says in her new preface to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/guardianbookshop.com\/london-fields-9781784879952\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">London Fields<\/a><\/em> (Vintage Classics).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/dec\/08\/anthony-cumminss-best-fiction-of-2024\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequels and reboots were the trend: Pat Barker, Percival Everett, Nick Harkaway and Colm To\u00edb\u00edn all went back for seconds one way or another. 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