{"id":110987,"date":"2025-05-18T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110987\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T06:11:08","slug":"book-of-the-week-with-waterstones-of-kings-lynn-is-question-7-by-richard-flanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110987\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Week with Waterstones of King\u2019s Lynn is Question 7 by Richard Flanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In our weekly look at books we focus on Waterstones\u2019 Non-Fiction of the Month for May 2025\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Question 7 by Richard Flanagan is a bravura love letter to Tasmania by way of H.G. Wells, nuclear physics and Hiroshima, all rendered in sublime, page-turning prose.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning at a love hotel by Japan\u2019s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, the book is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 519 809\" alt=\"Question 7 by Richard Flanagan\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"XTB8BPRE8H2ZK84WVUF3.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.64\"\/>Question 7 by Richard Flanagan<\/p>\n<p>From an affair, through 1930s physics, to Flanagan\u2019s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents, and the terrible past that delivered him to that place.<\/p>\n<p>Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science and memory, it shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Top Ten Chart with Waterstones of Norfolk Street, in Lynn:<\/p>\n<p>1. A Case of Mice and Murder &#8211; Sally Smith<\/p>\n<p>2. We Solve Murders &#8211; Richard Osman<\/p>\n<p>3. Belsay &#8211; LJ Ross<\/p>\n<p>4. How to Solve Your Own Murder &#8211; Kristen Perrin<\/p>\n<p>5. King\u2019s Lynn: a Potted History &#8211; Paul Richards<\/p>\n<p>6. The Familiar &#8211; Leigh Bardugo<\/p>\n<p>7. Butter &#8211; Asako Yuzuki<\/p>\n<p>8. Richard Flanagan &#8211; Question 7<\/p>\n<p>9. My Favourite Mistake &#8211; Marian Keyes<\/p>\n<p>10. Meditations for Mortals &#8211; Oliver Burkeman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In our weekly look at books we focus on Waterstones\u2019 Non-Fiction of the Month for May 2025\u2026 Question&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,609,7388,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-110987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-kings-lynn","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114527357420521321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}