‘On her first day working here Anna told her that she hired her because of her calm, collected way of dealing with the questions in the interview. She assumes that Anna knows she is the opposite of this and has basically hired a yin to her yang. At another level she understands very clearly what Anna expects of her.’

‘In the faint blue light of the night we get into his bed and wait for time to run out. In hiding, we hold onto what we think we are and what we wish we were.’

‘Reverse Engineering II is a remarkable anthology and a wonderfully looping set of conversations about the elusive nature of the creative process.’

‘Daniell uses a neat cast of characters, a sprinkling of sub-tales and a touch of comedy to create a story far broader than the reader might expect, an acerbic dissection of a tired world order and personal history of two very different individuals.’

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‘Anytime that someone is writing about their life, or something that happened to them, or even just telling a story to someone, there are distortions happening. There’s necessarily going to be a very subjective view of things.’

‘The Constellations of Memory reckons with the empty spaces and imprecise flickers of deteriorating memory. Written in Chile in 2019, Fernandez’s work binds together her mother’s fading memories, her country’s reckoning with redacted memories, and the ancient glimmers of stars from a time and place light years away.’

‘We lived apart for more than a year after the wedding. Aaron was sent to support the LA office after their director fell down an escalator. The accident wasn’t considered too serious at first, so neither was our separation.’

‘It’s impossible for me to write about how I translated Jordi Cussà’s Cavalls salvatges without thinking of The Fall’s ‘How I Wrote Elastic Man’. At the end of the day, did I translate Cavalls salvatges? Did I write Wild Horses? Was it a combination of the two? Does anyone even give a shit?’

‘The world of Kick The Latch is one of poverty, gender-based violence, cruel capitalism; and also friendship, and professional pride, and compassion. It’s all utterly immersive in its physicality, each sentence as firm and hard-working as the narrator,’

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‘A lump of clay is on the wheel that I know is mine because there is a nice pink post-it with my name misspelled on it telling me so. I pin a name badge in the same pink to my jumper, but I add the E where it should be. I hope nobody will mind.’

‘It invites us to consider reading neither a chore nor a pleasure, but an essential part of a fulfilling life. It is an ideal corrective to slavishly tallying up the books we’ve read on Amazon-owned Goodreads.’

‘Not just a nostalgic curiosity, but an important piece of the social history of Britain in the 1930s’

Lunate contributors and friends share their favourite books of 2022

‘Structured by the multiperspectivity for which Rashomon has become a byword, Trust poses as four separate manuscripts, each subverting the other in turn as they offer alternative versions of the same mesh of events.’

‘Johanne Lykke Holm has created here a dizzying classic, full of bite and fear and sumptuous pleasures.’

‘At the book’s end, Johnson-Schlee imagines a world where we could ‘take threads and draw lines between every interaction, every instant of collective joy, every borrowed utensil and every shared loaf’. Living Rooms, itself, performs this work: scrutinising our homes, looking closely at their fibres, and opening them out through their connections with the world.’

‘One of the things Agnès told me, in the short time I was with her, was about an uncontacted tribe who lived on an island in the Indian Ocean, who had never discovered the secret of fire.’

‘Fuster’s observations surf the philosophical abyss, choosing an attitude of pragmatism and sensuality instead – and evident devotion to literature.’