Candice Carty-Williams, Patrick Freyne and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
I just finished reading Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam. I absolutely adored this book, a fantastic combination of violence and vulnerability set on Manchester’s Curry Mile. I became completely attached to the three main boys, and I loved all of the perspective shifts to different characters throughout the book. I fully weeped at the end – it was an unexpected but completely understandable ending. 10/10, everyone should read this.
Written by a criminologist and ethnographer who grew up on an estate in London, Trapped Life by Ebony Reid is one of those works of nonfiction that feels every bit as consuming as fiction as it details the challenges faced by those living in an inner city environment. Next, All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now by Ruby Tandoh – I will devour anything that Tandoh writes. There is a specific brand of accessibility she employs when writing about food that makes everything click, especially when it comes to the social, economic and technological factors that shape how we eat today. Finally, it’s rare that I tap into the Victorian gothic, but my most trusted reader friend told me that I’d enjoy Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito, so I found myself trailing the dark corridors of Ensor House, equally terrified and thrilled at 2am because I could not put it down.
