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Oct 4, 20222 min read

The Booker Prize 2022 #5: Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet

The author GMB, interested in psychiatry and one prolific 1960s psychiatrist in particular, is trusted with a set of notebooks kept by...

Sep 28, 20223 min read

The Booker Prize 2022 #4: The Colony by Audrey Magee

Two men make their way to a tiny Irish island. On uncertain and uneasily, the other more self-assured. Mr Lloyd crosses the sea from...

Sep 27, 20222 min read

The Booker Prize 2022 #3: Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler’s new book is but isn’t the story of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Is but isn’t because it tells the...

Sep 26, 20222 min read

The Booker Prize 2022 #2: Trust by Hernan Diaz

What do a novel, an unfinished autobiography, the manuscript for a ghost-written memoir, and a diary have in common? They are all parts...

Sep 21, 20223 min read

The Booker Prize 2022 #1: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

I’m starting my series of posts about this year’s Booker Prize longlist with a double review as I squeezed in Elizabeth Strout’s My Name...

Mar 17, 20223 min read

Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Uncle Aziz comes by the house every year. His visits are always a cause for excitement. The wealthy merchant and his men are not only...

Nov 2, 20215 min read

The Booker Prize 2021

Tomorrow, the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize will be announced. Over the past few weeks I read my way through the shortlist, and it was...

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