Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated. The purpose was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose. Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and the British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu couldn’t have been more different. But together they were the perfect team and created an ingenious plan: Get a corpse, equip it with false secret papers concerning the invasion and drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies would take the bait. The idea was approved by British intelligence officials. Winston Churchill believed it might help bring victory to the Allies. Filled with spies, double agents, rogues and fearless heroes, the story reads like a thriller.[break]
Mood Mapping by Dr. Liz Miller
Mood mapping simply involves plotting one’s feelings against one’s energy levels, to determine current mood. This book then offers the necessary tools to lift a low mood, so improving mental health and wellbeing. The author developed this technique as a result of her own diagnosis of bipolar disorder, or manic depression, and of overcoming it, which led her to seek ways to improve the mental health of others. This positive book illustrates the five keys to moods, through which readers can learn to identify the physical or emotional factors that affect moods and prevent low mood triggers; the Miller Mood Map, to visually map a mood in order to increase self-awareness; and practical ways to implement change to alleviate low mood. Mood mapping is an essential life skill, and understanding it will enable readers to be happier, calmer, and more positive.
The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk
The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist is an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about reading and writing novels. In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on Friedrich Schiller’s famous distinction between “naïve” writers – those who write spontaneously and “sentimental” writers – those who are reflective and aware – Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word. He takes us through his own literary journey and the beloved novels of his youth to describe the singular experience of reading. Pamuk basically dissects what happens when we read a novel. Unique, nuanced, and passionate and hence totally captivating, this book will be beloved by readers and writers alike.
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Hailed as “incandescent,” “magnificent,” and “a literary miracle,” hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. Now Robinson returns with a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Gilead. The Reverend Boughton’s hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic carrying two decades worth of secrets, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remains his most beloved child. As Jack tries to make peace with his father, he begins to forge an intense bond with his sister Glory, herself returning home with a broken heart and turbulent past. Home is a luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith from one of America’s most beloved and acclaimed authors.
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