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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...
Oct 12, 20233 min read


When we were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Christopher Banks’ life changes over night when shortly after his father’s disappearance his mother goes missing, too. In early twentieth...
Sep 7, 20233 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...
Oct 6, 20221 min read


Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour is seventeen years old and has just become the head of her small family in London. Her mother has just died,...
Jun 8, 20222 min read


The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
The Trojan War has left destruction in its wake. The city is defeated, its men have been murdered, and the women enslaved. But the Greek...
Apr 26, 20222 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...
Mar 17, 20223 min read


Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
It is hot in this 1960s Harlem summer where we meet Ray Carney for the first time. A respectable furniture salesman, Carney is well-liked...
Feb 15, 20222 min read


A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Moscow, 1922. Count Alexander Rostov – member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – faces a Bolshevik tribunal and the end to life as...
Jul 27, 20213 min read


City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
"Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it."
Mar 2, 20213 min read
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