The Book of Dust was an entertaining read. Not as good as His Dark Materials series but still satisfying. I really like Pullman's writing.
I would like to share this new "Top 10 UK & Irish Authors" poll by the Times Literary Supplement that was in the news this week. The objective was "Critics, academics and authors vote to find ‘the new Elizabethans’, to correct the tendency to champion older authors as the literary establishment." In other words, the intent was to identify the best authors "at the moment" and whose future work is most anticipated. Examples of the old establishment that you won't see on the list are Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis.
The poll includes many authors that the Literary Club has read or nominated.

The top 5 authors in the poll were Ali Smith, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro and Eimear McBride. Four of the top five are women! The rest of the top 10 are Colm Tóibín, Nicola Barker, Alan Hollinghurst and Anne Enright, with Sebastian Barry and Jon McGregor tying for 10th.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...-irish-authors
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/p...velists-today/
I recently read and enjoyed
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor after it was announced as the 2017 Costa Book Novel Award winner in January. I posted my thoughts on this author in the New Leaf Book Club discussion thread. Here's a link to the post.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=142