The New Torchlight List

A PROVOCATIVE ROAD MAP TO READINGWriters' festivals, TV book shows, radio interviews, book clubs, TED Talks-today's novelists are a travelling roadshow. New books and their authors are thrown to the wolves, aka reviewers, to be savaged, praised to the skies, or sadly just ignored. In the midst of all this, how can the bewildered booklover decide what to read?Jim Flynn tackles the question head-on in this racy, funny, no-holds-barred book, the sequel to his bestseller The Torchlight List. Flynn spent 6 years reading nearly 400 books by modern authors, including many new works in translation. Are the authors who receive all the hype really the best? Who's worth reading and who's not? Readers will be shocked, surprised and sometimes enraged by Flynn's audacious opinions. Above all they will be inspired, as we have been at Awa Press, to try many new authors and read new work by authors we have loved in the past.

“"Those wanting some starting texts will be informed, and avid readers will enjoy agreeing or disagreeing with his selections . . . a great read, and conversation starter." --Helen Speirs, Otago Daily Times”

Those wanting some starting texts will be informed, and avid readers will enjoy agreeing or disagreeing with his selections . . . a great read, and conversation starter." —Helen Speirs, Otago Daily Times

Jim Flynn was emeritus professor at Otago University, an internationally acclaimed expert on IQ, and a favourite guest on media shows and at writers' festivals. Jim's first book in this series, The Torchlight List, is an Awa Press all-time top seller and has been published in the US by Skyhorse Publishing. His TED talk "Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'" has been viewed more than 4.5 million times. Jim Flynn died in December 2020 at the age of 86.

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