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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...

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...

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....

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 –...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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