I first read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood about 10 years ago and recently reread it followed by the long-awaited sequel The Testaments. Atwood’s dystopian classic first published ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2021/05/23/the-handmaids-tale-and-the-testaments-by-margaret-atwood/
I have been reading a lot of non-fiction over the last few weeks, and even the most recent novel I have read masquerades as a series of biographical sketches. ‘Their Brilliant Careers’ by Rya...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2019/12/01/their-brilliant-careers-by-ryan-oneill/
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, ‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers brings together nine stories in which the characters grow to reali...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2019/10/27/the-overstory-by-richard-powers/
The Booker Prize 2019 longlist was announced on Wednesday. The 13 titles are: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braith...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2019/07/28/the-booker-prize-2019-longlist/
Is it possible not to have a good year for books? Thankfully, I don’t think this has happened to me yet, so here is a list of the books I enjoyed the most in 2018. I … Continue re...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/12/31/my-books-of-the-year-2018/
The winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize was announced last month. While ‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers and ‘Washington Black’ by Esi Edugyan appeared to be the favourites to win ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/11/04/the-mars-room-by-rachel-kushner/
‘Normal People’ by Sally Rooney tells the story of teenagers Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron who go to school together in the small rural town of Carricklea in the west of Ireland and l...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/09/09/normal-people-by-sally-rooney/
The opening chapter of ‘Snap’ by Belinda Bauer presents a chilling premise based on the unsolved murder of Marie Wilks. On a hot day in the summer of 1998, eleven-year-old Jack Bright is left...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/08/17/snap-by-belinda-bauer/
The Man Booker Prize longlist for 2018 has been announced today (officially this time – it seems it was accidentally leaked by the Guardian yesterday afternoon). The 13 books are: Snap by Belin...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/07/24/the-man-booker-prize-2018-longlist/
The Man Booker Prize longlist will be announced on Tuesday 24th July and the annual guessing game of “posh bingo” commences once again. When considering which books could make the cut, I hav...
The Man Booker Prize is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a “best of the best” Golden Man Booker Prize due to be awarded next month. However, while the winning novels have often...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/06/10/man-booker-prize-the-best-of-the-shortlists/
I haven’t read many of the early winners of the Booker Prize but ‘Hotel du Lac’ by Anita Brookner is one I have been meaning to read ahead of the Golden Man Booker Prize celebrations later ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/05/20/hotel-du-lac-by-anita-brookner/
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize last year, ‘4 3 2 1’ by Paul Auster consists of four different versions of the life of Archibald Issac Ferguson, born in Newark, New Jersey in 1947 (the s...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/05/07/4-3-2-1-by-paul-auster/
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize and the organisers have launched a one-off prize to celebrate the best of the winning novels to date. Five writers and poets will be choosi...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/02/16/the-golden-man-booker-prize/
Last year’s Man Booker Prize longlist was largely dominated by established authors apart from the surprise inclusion of PhD student Fiona Mozley with her debut novel ‘Elmet’ which made the ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/01/04/elmet-by-fiona-mozley/
‘Solar Bones’ by Mike McCormack won the Goldsmiths Prize last year and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year after it was picked up by the UK-based publisher Canongate. It te...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2017/09/10/solar-bones-by-mike-mccormack/
The Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist was announced today. The 13 books are: 4321 by Paul Auster Days Without End by Sebastian Barry History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Sol...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2017/07/27/the-man-booker-prize-2017-longlist/
I only started blogging about my predictions for literary award longlists relatively recently. Three of my Man Booker Prize predictions last year made it on to the longlist of 13 titles, and two ...
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a preview screening of the film adaptation of ‘The Sense of an Ending’, based on Julian Barnes’s bestselling novella first published in 2011. The story fo...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2017/04/14/film-review-the-sense-of-an-ending/
Shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, ‘His Bloody Project’ by Graeme Macrae Burnet tells the story of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae, accused of committing three brutal murders ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2016/12/24/his-bloody-project-by-graeme-macrae-burnet/
It would have been interesting to read ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ without knowing the twist which is revealed on page 77. However, as Karen Joy Fowler’s sixth novel has been...
Shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing’ by Madeleine Thien is a multi-generational saga of two families set against the backdrop of key events in 20th cen...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2016/10/09/do-not-say-we-have-nothing-by-madeleine-thien/
Longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, ‘Serious Sweet’ by A. L. Kennedy is set over the course of twenty-four hours in London in 2014, following a day in the lives of 45-year-old reco...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2016/09/04/serious-sweet-by-a-l-kennedy/
The longlist for the Man Booker Prize 2016 was announced today. The thirteen books are: The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Oneworld) The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee (Harvill Secker) Serious Sw...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2016/07/27/the-man-booker-prize-longlist-2016/
Although I have been following several major literary awards for the past few years, I have never written a blog post specifically outlining my predictions for the Man Booker Prize… until now. ...