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Curling Up

Curling Up

We have this fantasy that in 2016 we'll suddenly have all this time to curl up on the couch with a great book...
FORGET THE FANTASY:
We're resolving to make the time.
But what to read? With so many books and so little time, how to choose? Here's a start: We've gone and asked some of our friends for their top recommendations.
Here's to more time on the couch in 2016!


[June Summerill]
Co-Founder, S&B
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger

[Skye Gyngell] 
Chef, Spring
Chez Panisse Fruit by Alice Waters
The Zuni Café Cookbook by Judy Rodgers

[Hannah Weiland]
Founder and Creative Director, Shrimps
1984 by George Orwell
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

[Marcelo de Campos]
S&B Chef & Curator
Notting Hell by Rachel Johnson
The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt

[Donna McLean]
Artist
Solaris by Stanislav Lem
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

[Tommy Clark]
CEO and Co-Founder, Grassroots Soccer
[Tommy's kids favourites]
Officer Buckle & Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

[Tricia Guild]
Founder, Designers Guild
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The White Road by Edmund de Waal

[Carole Bamford]
Founder, Daylesford & Bamford
Songs of Love & War by Santa Montefiore
Somerset Maugham's Short Stories

[Roger Beckett]
Scriptwriter

[Whitney Payne]
Co-founder, Flowerbx
Flowers by Carolyne Roehm
Flowers by Irving Penn

[Max Bishop]
Kid / Wannabe Football Star
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Twits by Roald Dahl

[Carolina Bucci]
Jewellery Designer
Emilio Pucci by Vanessa Friedman
Epilogue by Will Boast

[Elaine Cyzer]
Gallerist, E & R Cyzer
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
  Hearts & Minds by Amanda Craig

[Sadie Jones]
Novelist
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway


[Helena Boas]
Founder & CEO, Bodas
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

[Eliza Honey]
S&B Meanderings Editor
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Battles in the Desert by Jose Emilio Pacheco

[Skye Bishop]
Kid / Wannabe Singer
The Fancy Nancy Books by Jane O'Connor
Flotsam by David Wiesner

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