Best books … chosen by Paul McGeough

Award-winning journalist Paul McGeough covers the Middle East for The Sydney Morning Herald. Kill Khalid, his new book, revisits a botched Israeli assassination and the resurgence of Hamas.

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Penguin, $15). From the first page, Doyle’s Booker Prize–winning 1993 novel took me back to growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 1960s. Doyle’s writing captures the world of kids waiting for something—anything—to happen.

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (Penguin, $12). As a teenager, I was ­riveted by the emotional drama of the women in Lawrence’s life. His ability to depict family life, love, and tension—while at the same time evoking a wondrous sense of place—was a revelation that still leaves me in awe.

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