BOOKS BOOKS Reading Notes Orna Mulcahy selects nine books to read in November B rrr.Winter is the excuse we need to stay inside and snuggle under some layers, preferably with the company of a good book. November tends to be a quieter month in publishing, coming as it does after the glut of October launches and before the rush of Christmas gift -worthy books, but there are plenty of great launches this month, including Michelle Obamas new guide to living, the latest John Banville and a superb memoir from Gavin McCrea. Having sold an estimated 17 million copies of her memoir, Becoming, Michelle Obama is back with THE LIGHT WE CARRY (Penguin Random House, €24.99), a guide to living from the famously empathetic former First Lady. Theres advice on building enduring relationships, on how to deal with self-doubt and how not to become overwhelmed in a world gone mad in so many directions. The take-home messages? Treat others with respect, identify mentors and friends and listen to them and, most of all, find pockets of gladness where you can. Set to be released simultaneously in 27 countries, as Obama might say herself, its going to go high. Songwriter Patti Smith is another American treasure with a big book coming this month. A BOOK OF DAYS (Bloomsbury, €28.60) is a compilation of images and moods that were first captured in her @thisispattismith Instagram feed. Fans will find snippets of her daily life in snaps that chart everything from her favourite coat, boots and books, close-ups of her face, highways, musical memorabilia and cups of coffee. I loved Smiths memoir M Train, which brings the reader on a journey from her favourite Greenwich Village café to Detroit to French Guyana to Frida Kahlos Mexico, but A Book of Days is lovely to leaf through and would make a fine gift. CELLS (Scribe, €19.45) is an intense and sometimes intensely sad memoir from Irish writer Gavin McCrea whose two novels Mrs Engels and The Sisters Mao have won prizes and critical acclaim. A chronicler of strong women, with Cells McCrea turns his high beam onto his own mother and his father and his siblings, none of whom seem to have been able to protect him from the horrific homophobic abuse he endured throughout his childhood and teenage years and indeed into adulthood. The book opens during Covid with McCrea living with and caring for his mother in a small apartment, while working on this very book. McCreas mother is slowly losing her memory but he vividly recalls her as a young woman tall, beautiful, a strong swimmer, easy with people, angry with her own mother. He writes beautifully of their special bond but rivers of anger and blame run through the narrative that is also laced with therapy notes as he recalls failures to connect with other members of his family and lovers along the way. Ive only just caught up with Jonathan Coes Costa prize-winning novel Middle England about a disjointed family grappling with life and the forces that led to Brexit. BOURNEVILLE, (Viking, €22.90), sounds like the next instalment, promising a journey from post-war Britain to the present day, told through several generations of a family who live in Bourneville, home of the famous chocolate factory. Coe paints gentle portraits of mostly good people who are forced into difficult positions by more extreme characters snobs, go-getters and sly operators seizing the moment. Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblins unsettling short stories and novels have appeared on the Booker longlist and shortlist in recent years. Her latest collection, SEVEN EMPTY HOUSES, translated by Megan McDowell (One World, €14.90), sets characters in different and distinctly odd houses that are not so much homes as locations for highly disturbing events. Perfect reading for the month of the dead. The buildings photographed in Rebecca Brownlies ABANDONED IRELAND (Merrion Press, €27.95) once thrummed with life, but now are crumbling, beyond repair or have disappeared altogether. Brownlies beautiful, atmospheric shots explore forgotten homes with ivy growing through windows, cobwebbed plates on dressers and iron beds moored in empty rooms. From cottages to mansions, asylums to convents, old linen mill buildings and broken-down prisons, the book is a socio-political document that highlights our lack of imagination in tackling beautiful buildings that have lost their original purpose. Back in fiction, fans of Leila Slimanis Lullaby might like Louise Meys THE SECOND WOMAN (Pushkin Press, €10.20), a slow-burn psychological thriller set somewhere in France. Sandrine has fallen for a man whose wife, Caroline, has disappeared, presumed dead. Lo, in the first chapter she is discovered alive and suffering from amnesia. She remembers only that she had a child Mathias, who is now being lovingly cared for by Sandrine, who appears to revel in her new life as a partner and stepmother, but theres an uneasy undercurrent to it all. As Caroline begins to remember the events around her disappearance, Sandrine gradually reveals the horror of her own life her man isnt just moody, hes angry, controlling and violent. At times the story reads as a kind of handbook of coercive behaviour, but the pace builds at last as the two women join forces to escape from his diabolical hold. Who can resist Michael Harding when he is riffing on the vagaries of small town and country life, always tilting his story towards the universal, the sadness and the shafts of joy that occasionally light the way. In his latest book, ALL THE THINGS LEFT UNSAID (Hachette, €15.99), Harding is recovering from surgery and has taken himself off to Donegal to contemplate the waves and lay some ghosts to rest. Reflections on his time in hospital are interspersed with letters to people from his past an old friend, a lover, a priest from Hardings seminary days who was also a poet and a visionary from whom hed grown apart. Harding can start a paragraph contemplating a cat or a cloud and end it with an insight that can stop you in your tracks. John Banvilles THE SINGULARITIES (Knopf, €14.99) brings back his most notorious character, Freddie Montgomery, releasing him from prison and renaming him Felix Mordaunt. A sinister cove out of step with the world, he journeys to his old home only to find that it too has a new name and new inhabitants, namely descendants of renowned scientist Adam Godley whose writings are kept in the one good room in the house a secret vault accessed through blind doors and perfectly temperature controlled. The rest of the house is impossibly damp and so everyone converges in the kitchen. I tended to pick this book up and leave it down again, drawn in by Banvilles exquisite arrangement of words and his deft drawing of characters. Nothing escapes his eye and though the plot wanders considerably and footnotes appear in alarming depth, its a book that will need more than one reading to decode. @OrnaMulcahy THE GLOSS MAGAZINE November 2022 73 PARTY DRESSING / POTENT SCENTS / BOOKS / BUTTER BOARDS / ART-FILLED HOTELS / WHAT WRITERS READ / REINVENTING MEN'S STYLE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2022 with THE IRISH TIMES s.ie os gl www .th e Add Sparkle! Jewellery trends and how to wear them VERONIKA FAUSTMANN CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE THE GLOSS MONTHLY REMINDER SIGN UP to receive a monthly reminder by email when THE GLOSS is out so that you never miss an issue. Simply register your details on WWW.THEGLOSS.IE. ñó øó MILANESE STYLE Four architects at home in Milan Pre-loved purple bo GLOSSIP TWO UP Gloss~ip On The Agenda FLEXIBLE JEWELLERY Little somethings and getting happy GO GREEN: Ivy linen napkin set, 90, Liquorice Interiors; www.liquorice.ie. BE FRUITY: Luna by Luna lipstick in Cherry Opal, 12; www.lunabylisa.ie. Pieces you can adapt to your mood see Boodles Be Bo MOODBOARD 5 7 6 November Mood 1. IM PUTTING a bow on it with a handmade silk scrunchie by www.sineadkeary.com. 39, to order. 2. IM RETAKING vows in an Hermès Kelly ring from the Kellymorphose collection. I do! 2 3. IM LOOKING THE BUSINESS 3 in monogrammed Victoria Beckhams AW22 Ready-to-We Official fuel consumption figures for the Evoque R -Dynamic HSE PHEV in l/100km: WLTP Combined TEL- TEH 3.0. CO2 emissions WLTP combined g/km:35 (TEH only). The figures provided are as a result of official manufacturers tests in accordance with EU legislation. For comparison purposes only. Real worl A F A M I L Y S T O R Y Yasmin and Amber Le Bon wear Raindance JEWELLERY elet ck brac fany Lo if o. T C ld & o y g , Tiffan Yellow monds ia d h it w Gold cable-knit cashmere sweater, Johnstons of Elgin, 229; gold-tone Arial rhinestone stretch cuff, 120; gold-tone and rhinestone bracelet, 113; both Christina Goldston; all at Kildare Village; www.kildarevillage fope.com JEWELLERY 5 7 FINELY Judged 1 2 4 3 A discreet gold jewellery trend has emerged: delicate pieces worn every day like a second skin. Think fine chains and tiny, gold-set diamonds and semi-precious stones. 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I dont mean the eye-rolling hard BEST SHOPS HOWBERT & MAYS Best Shops Ireland 2022 STABLE Westbury Mall, Balfe Street, Dublin 2. Sonia Reynolds and Frances Duff have created a fresh and modern take on Irish weaving and craft, presenting old-world skills and traditions in a new light. Stable works with more than 30 different prod BEST SHOPS DOREEN KILFEATHER GEAROID LYNCH LITTLE WOODEN PEG 55 Georges Street Upper, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin. At the The Little Wooden Peg, shopkeeper Ruth Cross stocks timeless, sustainably produced childrenswear. There is also a range of toys and books, nursery items and a small collection of BEST SHOPS HUNTER PAPER CO 366 Upper Newtownards CIÚIN TRACEY Road, Ballyhackamore, Belfast, Northern Ireland. After establishing her wholesale card and print business in 2016, illustrator Emma Johnston opened Hunter Paper Co in 2020 with her husband Ross. The shop has a printing press that Emma BOOKS BOOKS Reading Notes Orna Mulcahy selects nine books to read in November B rrr.Winter is the excuse we need to stay inside and snuggle under some layers, preferably with the company of a good book. November tends to be a quieter month in publishing, coming as it does after the glut of Octob BOOKS WHAT WRITERS READ Writer and broadcaster Pandora Sykes asked writers, including Nick Hornby, for short essays on their favourite books for a collection in aid of a literacy charity K nowing an authors favourite book feels like a delicious piece of insider information like peeking behind t ADVERTORIAL S Naomi Overend at Airfield Plenty of places to play ROLE MODEL FARM Overends Kitchen Borders in the walled garden Airfield House At Airfield Estate in Dundrum, the philanthropic legacy of sisters Letitia and Naomi Overend lives on The Victorian glasshouse isters Letitia and Naom THIS GLOSSY LIFE This Glossy Life MILANESE STYLE In Milan, Italys capital of fashion and design and cauldron of creative talent, living well is an art form. The four women architects on the following pages exemplify Milanese style ... we get a glimpse into their individual, super-original homes 7 THIS GLOSSY LIFE THEIR UPBRINGING NURTURED AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT PERFECTION MEANS TO CLIENTS AND WHAT IT TAKES TO ACHIEVE IT. F amily has always played an important role the lives of twin sisters NATHALIE AND VIRGINIE DROULER and Nathalies home, opposite, was created at the Milan design studio THIS GLOSSY LIFE PEOPLE THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY TO BE SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY ON SOMEONE ELSES HOUSE, LAUGHS DIANA, BUT I COULDNT RESIST. I nterior architect DIANA TERRAGNI rents an apartment in Palazzo Trivulzio, overlooking the beautifully baroque SantAlessandro church. People thought I was crazy to THIS GLOSSY LIFE The living room ALTHOUGH SHE IS NOT OFTEN IN THE KITCHEN, SHE MAKES SURE IT IS WELL STOCKED AND READY FOR A PARTY. M ost days, you can find NATALIA BIANCHI sitting at the round table in her studio, usually with one of her children. Thats my spot, she says, well, when Im home. Na ENVIRONMENT A Drop in The Ocean Heat your house, not the planet, says Holly Hughes If boiling potatoes on the hob, add a steamer on top of the pot to simultaneously steam vegetables or fish. Make sure every pan has a lid on it to reduce energy use and cooking time. The microwave is your friend. B SOUTH WILLIAM STREET, DUBLIN 2 01 616 9967 BLACKROCK, CO DUBLIN 01 210 8630 WWW.BROWNSUGAR.IE RANELAGH, DUBLIN 6 01 485 1988