Recently Booker-longlisted experimental novel of acting and identity
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Book Review: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (India)
I read (and didn’t much like) Kiran’s Desai’s Booker-winner
Book Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (India)
Booker-winning Indian novel
Book Review: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lanka)
Booker-prize winning ghost-driven murder mystery
The Promise by Damon Galgut (South Africa)
Damon Galgut’s Booker-winning ‘The Promise’ was without a doubt one of my books of the year.
Elif Shafak’s novel ’10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World’ (Turkey)
NORTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA This is a bit of a throwback post, as some of it was first posted by me in 2019, and was in fact my fifth ever review on the blog. I’m re-posting with some additional discussion of publication prospects in the West for Turkish authors, as part of …
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Booker Prize 2021: Longlist Predictions
My predictions for the 2021 Booker longlist. How many will I get right? Any?!
June 2021 round up
It’s been a challenging month, with my daughter still recovering at home from extensive orthopaedic surgery, and reluctantly doing some home schooling from the sofa. We’ve been sharing a sofa bed downstairs for two months while she needs care in the night, and at 14 she could really do without her mum sharing a bedroom …
Olga Ravn: The Employees – A workplace novel of the 22nd century
A new take on sci-fi, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania)
Beautifully written and deeply symbolic coming of age tale set in East Africa in the early 20th century
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