StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany

Obviously all any of us can talk about is the heatwave. Oooof! I am very grateful for aircon in the office, and just about surviving the nights (even Hargreaves the cat has decided that sleeping under the duvet, on my legs, is no longer appropriate). But maybe a book, a blog post, and a link will help cool you down… 1.) The book – I just happened to google Michael Cunningham, to see if there was another book on the way. I didn’t have much hope but, excitingly, there is a memoir coming out in July! Unsayable is about his writing life, and I’m already putting it speculatively on my Best Books of 2026 without having read a word. 2.) The blog post – a couple of reviews of the latest British Library Women Writers title are out. I’m so excited that we managed to get The Spring House by Cynthia Asquith onto the list. It’s an absolutely brilliant, sensitive, moving and often funny portrait of a young woman whose ancestral home is turned into a hospital for injured soldiers. Liz and Books and…