Books by Chetna Maroo
“It’s a strange, sparse little novel about a Jain family living in Luton, England, and grieving the death of their mother. The father and youngest daughter become fixated on the sport squash, spending hours training at a local sports centre every day, driving thoughts of death from their mind with a regimen of drills, ‘ghosting’, sprints, and increasingly desperate matches.” Read more...
The Best Novels of 2023: The Booker Prize Shortlist
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Interviews where books by Chetna Maroo were recommended
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Orbital
by Samantha Harvey -
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Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan -
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Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor (narrator) -
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The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Ruth L. C. Simms -
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad -
6
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
Short Novels
Short Novels
A short novel can be the perfect way to occupy the mind during an empty evening or a long journey. One can also appreciate a well-written book’s true complexity when it can be read and digested in a single, immersive sitting. Here, we’ve pulled together a list of short literary novels—most of them fewer than 200 pages in length—that have been recommended on Five Books over the years.
The Best Novels of 2023: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Cal Flyn
Every year, the judges for the Booker Prize read more than a hundred books that have been submitted by their publishers in the hope of being recognised by one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards. The 2023 shortlist features a novel-in-stories, an Irish dystopia, and plenty of family drama. See the Booker Prize shortlist 2024.
