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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...

If This Is a Man by Primo Levi

What can you say about a work such as this? It has been several weeks now since I read it, and I still feel lost for words. If This Is a...

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

It is a bitter cold winter in Ireland, 1985. We are in a small town, among good Christian citizens and meet Bill Furlong, the coal...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Frederic Henry, known simply as “tenente” by most, is an American lieutenant fighting with the Italian Army in World War I. He meets the...

A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway

In face of the recent war in Israel and Palestine (and the outbreak of sharing other people’s 240-character opinions on social media), I...

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Frank and April Wheeler’s life in the suburbs of Connecticut might look very typical to the untrained eye: two children and a charming...

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi’s stunning debut novel Homegoing traces the story of a Ghanaian family as it plays out both in the Asante region and in...

Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

What would the world look like, if we didn’t assume the worst of our fellow human beings? If collectively we had a positive, an...

The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham

“This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or...

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