Nonfiction: September's best-written recent release is Party Lines by Ed Gillett
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BOOKS CONSIDERED
The Gardener of Lashkar by Larisa Brown
High Caucasus by Tom Parfitt
Party Lines by Ed Gillett
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder
Alone by Daniel Schreiber
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil, trans. Joshua L. Freeman
Mortification by Mark Watson
Dust by Jay Owens
Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq
Backbone of the Nation by Robert Gildea
Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester
O Brother by John Niven
Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie
Answered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup by Duncan Hamilton
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