Year in review: domestic noir and identity politics on the rise

By Susan Wyndham
Updated January 8 2017 - 11:18am, first published December 27 2016 - 9:44pm
Bob Dylan describes winning the Nobel Prize for literature as "amazing". Photo: David Vincent/AP
Bob Dylan describes winning the Nobel Prize for literature as "amazing". Photo: David Vincent/AP
An Italian journalist may have found Elena Ferrante in freelance translator Anita Raja, despite decades of the novelist keeping her identity firmly under wraps.
An Italian journalist may have found Elena Ferrante in freelance translator Anita Raja, despite decades of the novelist keeping her identity firmly under wraps.

The adult colouring-in book craze that peaked in 2015 continued in a paler shade of madness. How many calming flowers and mandalas does a person need before starting to colour outside the lines? Readers preferred to hold their breath over the domestic noir genre of crime fiction that mimicked the blockbusters Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins – twisty psychological dramas between couples and other intimates. Children's books thrived, poetry proliferated, and life stories bred wildly.

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