Booker Prize 2023: Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
For nine months now, Tom Kettle has got to enjoy the quiet solitude of retirement after ending his career with the garda. From his rented...
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Nov 22, 20233 min read
Booker Prize 2023: All the Little Bird-Hearts by Victoria Lloyd-Barlow
Sunday has quiet day and currently eats only white foods. She cannot drink anything that is not fizzy and feels best burying her hands in...
Nov 21, 20232 min read
Booker Prize 2023: The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Penang, 1921. Lesley and Robert Hamlyn are expecting an important visitor. “Willie” Somerset Maugham, who has been travelling through...
Nov 19, 20232 min read
Booker Prize 2023 - A Spell of Good Things by Ayòbámi Adébáyò
Nigeria – a country marked by extreme poverty and breath-taking wealth – is home to Eniola and Wúràolá, the two protagonists of Ayọ̀bámi...
Nov 16, 20232 min read
Booker 2023: Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
Now that Gopi’s mother has died, it is up to her and her sisters to try and keep their father from falling apart. The only thing he still...
Nov 14, 20232 min read
Booker Prize 2023: Pearl by Siân Hughes
For some reason I expected not to enjoy this novel. Based on some blurb or review, I’d saved it in a similar category to Study for...
Nov 13, 20233 min read
Booker Prize 2023: How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
In the fictional town of Emory, Eoin takes a walk with his 13 year old son Jamie who can’t stop talking for a second, filled with...
Nov 7, 20232 min read
Booker Prize 2023 - Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
A young woman moves to an unnamed Northern country to stay with her older brother as a housekeeper. Here she faces not only the strange...
Nov 6, 20234 min read
Booker Prize 2023 - Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
I finished Prophet Song by Paul Lynch a few weeks ago, but I could not sit down and write up my thoughts about this novel right away,...
Oct 17, 20233 min read
Booker Prize 2023 - The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Rarely do I sit down to type up my review with no idea how to begin. But first things first: I loved The Bee Sting. There is so much...
Oct 12, 20233 min read
Booker Prize 2023 - This Other Eden by Paul Harding
I am sad to report that this was quite a disappointing read for me. Not because it was bad but I had such high expectations and it just...
Sep 28, 20233 min read
Booker Prize 2023 - If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
What are you? That’s the question you are asked by everyone from a young age. Because to a society that is built on a clear hierarchy of...
Aug 23, 20234 min read
Booker Prize 2023 - In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Leigh grows up in Rotterdam, at 22 feet below sea level, and develops a fascination with the ocean from an early age. When she swims, she...
Nov 7, 20221 min read
The Booker Prize 2022 #11: Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Unrest is spreading over Jidada. The Old Horse has fallen, the revolutionary government is replaced by a new self-proclaimed liberation...
Nov 6, 20222 min read
The Booker Prize 2022 #12: Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Kiara is seventeen and desperately trying to pay the rent that has been increased yet again. After her father’s death and with her mother...
Nov 1, 20222 min read
The Booker Prize 2022 # 10: Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
Lia’s carefully calibrated life is about to be turned upside down yet again. The cancer she battled years ago is back. And spreading....
Oct 12, 20222 min read
The Booker Prize 2022 #9: After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
At the beginning was Sappho, who spoke of her lovers and for sapphic women centuries on. Women – artists, writers, dancers, actresses –...
Oct 11, 20222 min read
The Booker Prize 2022 #8: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Joe is watching time pass by, measuring his days by Noony, the train that comes past his window once a day. He is all alone in his house,...
Oct 7, 20222 min read
The Booker Prize 2022 #7: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Maali Almeida is dead and has just woken up in the afterlife, though he does not know yet. For how he still believes he is having a weird...
Oct 6, 20221 min read
The Booker Prize 2022 #6: The Trees by Percival Everett
Money, Mississippi does not hold what its name promises but is home to an interesting set of characters who wake up to a series of brutal...
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