By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles With temperatures soaring across the country, you might enjoy diving into one of these cool books: David Mitchell’s groovy new novel, “Utopia Avenue” (Random House), takes us to London in the late 1960s to see the creation of an eclectic rock band. His story describes one of those amazing moments when a few unlikely artists suddenly fall into harmony and change the sound of an era. There are crazy cameos by young David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, John Lennon, and so many others that make “Utopia Avenue” an invitation to the fantasy party you’ve always dreamed of. READ AN EXCERPT: “Utopia Avenue” by David Mitchell “Utopia Avenue” by David Mitchell (Random House), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon On Aug. 11, 1596, William Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, was buried. Almost nothing more is known about the boy’s brief life. But now, Maggie O’Farrell has ventured into that silence and written a novel about this tragedy. “Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague” (Knopf) draws us back to those happy days when young William Shakespeare first spotted Anne Hathaway, the woman he would eventually marry – and it jumps forward to show Shakespeare… Read full this story
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