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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Benjamin Myers, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and Guardian readers

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli, The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei and The Ascent of Rum Doodle
Vintage; Oneworld; Orion. Photograph: PR

Benjamin Myers, writer

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman is a daring and endlessly inventive portrait of the iconoclastic composer. Penman’s skill lies in his total disregard for tired cliches and tropes of music criticism, while perfectly combining the highbrow and the lowbrow – a digression on Les Dawson shows why he might just be our greatest writer on music.

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