January 2021

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Share Tweet Forward January 2021  Firstly, thank you for signing up to what we hope will be a monthly shining light in your inbox! The aim of our newsletter is to keep you up to date with the goings on in the book world without doing any of the legwork. We're so lucky to have the inside scoop on what's new and coming up - and as the name suggests, you know we'll always keep it real with you guys and give you a run down of the books we’ve been raving about and the ones worth pre-ordering alongside our latest reviews.  We want this to be a cosy community so we’re always looking for guest reviewers, book recommendations and just general chat! Although we love books, we’re also partial to a good TV series or film recommendation too! On that note, Netflix really came through with the bingeable series last year but our faves included Cobra Kai (we highly recommend it to any Karate Kid fans) and The Queen’s Gambit.  There were great book adaptations too with shows such as Normal People, Us (BBC iPlayer) and Little Fires Everywhere (Amazon Prime) which we loved...and we’re still binging on Bridgerton (Netflix)! For those having withdrawals, Series 1 was based on The Duke and I by Julia Quinn! Hints on Series 2 should surely be found in Quinn’s second book, The Viscount Who Loved Me!? Turns out our Tanya read some of these books back in the early 00s!   To keep us entertained in 2021, we’re looking forward to seeing some great new shows based on books coming to our screens: Caroline Kepnes’ You Season 3 (Netflix) is out sometime soon with both books 3 and 4 in the making  Unashamedly, a new reality series called Bling Empire (Netflix), the LA version of Crazy Rich Asians (novel by Kevin Kwan), is one Omma is looking forward to! Lol For fans of true crime, The Serpent (BBC iPlayer) adapted from real events and the only biography of Charles Sobhraj, On the Trail of the Serpent retold by journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke, is out now and pinned as a must see!  The White Tiger (Netflix) based on the 2008 Man Booker Prize winning novel by Aravind Adiga. Will the series live up to expectation?  Our eyes are peeled for both Such A Fun Age (novel by Kiley Reid) and The Vanishing Half (novel by Brit Bennett) which have been optioned for TV by production studios. Make sure you read the books first! And will 2021 be the year we finally get to see Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine on our TV screens?! The novel by Gail Honeyman was one of our book club picks back in 2019! Following several great online book clubs last year, we are back this month with another Candid Conversations event joined by author Louise Hare! We will be discussing her debut This Lovely City, featured on BBC2's Between the Covers, and described by our Linda as ‘a South London book that captivated my heart!’ And since 3/5 of us are born Londoners and all 5 live here, this was always on our agenda as a book club pick! Grab a copy and join us on: Thursday 28th of January at 20:00 GMT! Sign up here In the world of books, January is the month the 5 Costa category awards winners are announced including the Book of the Year on 26th January. The Costa Book Awards was launched 50 years ago, with 5 category winners and an overall winner of Costa Book of the Year who gets a £30,000 cheque. Our not-so-secretly fave Sairish Hussain and her brilliant debut The Family Tree was our pick to win! Now, the number of January book releases is exhausting but the few we are most excited about are: A non-fiction memoir dissecting life as a 1st generation British-Pakistani woman from Walsall, navigating education, success and love whilst dealing with the forever disapproving 'society'! Stay tuned for some news about this book in our next newsletter - we reviewed it here. A debut described as a darkly comic novel about Edie, a twenty-something black woman who finds herself in an open marriage with a fortysomething white man, Eric, a digital archivist from New Jersey. Believe the hype - we reviewed it here. Another debut novel, this time based in India about the story of three lives that intersect around a single, harrowing lie. There’ve been mixed reviews online but check out what we thought here. So that's the round-up from us this month!  Feedback is always welcome so hit reply or DM us if there’s anything you’d like to see from us. We hope you all have a great start to the year and will continue reading along with us! Love, The Candid Book Club  Instagram Twitter Facebook Website Copyright © 2021 The Candid Book Club, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to our newsletter or have signed up to attend one of our events. Please note that some links used are commissionable links meaning that we may receive a small percentage of the sale if you make a purchase. This does not affect the price you pay.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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