Mr B’s Top Books of 2025 – Laura K

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Liv B

We’re counting down to Christmas with Team B’s books of the year… here’s Laura K’s shortlist, with The Lowest Common Denominator by Pirkko Saisio taking the coveted top spot!

Growing up in a communist home in post-war Helsinki, Pirkko is sure of two things: she’d prefer to be a boy and one day she’ll become an artist. These vivid impressions of childhood give us a scrappy cult author in the making. Laura K says: “Originally published in Finnish in 1998, this incisive family portrait and intimate coming-of-age story playfully questions the very nature of memory, with echoes of The Lying Life of Adults.”

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All books on this list Original price was: £199.93.Current price is: £166.96.

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