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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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."

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