The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernst...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/08/07/the-booker-prize-2023-longlist/
In my Booker Prize blog post last year, I noted that my longlist predictions lists in 2020 and 2021 included the eventual winners in those years: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart and The Promise...
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler was longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize and is a piece of historical fiction about the family of John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot dead Abraham Lincoln in 1865. ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2022/09/20/books-i-read-in-august/
The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo Trust by Hernan Diaz The Trees by Percival Everett Booth by Karen Joy Fowler Treacle Walker by Al...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2022/07/28/the-booker-prize-2022-longlist/
The 2022 Booker Prize longlist will be announced on Tuesday 26th July and I have made my annual list of predictions in terms of what I think could be some strong possibilities alongside my own pe...
My list of most anticipated books coming soon in 2022 is growing by the day, so here are some of the highlights. All publication dates where known apply to the United Kingdom only. To...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2022/01/08/my-most-anticipated-books-of-2022/
A lot of my reading in 2021 has involved catching up on books published in 2020 or earlier, particularly among non-fiction. Hungry by Grace Dent and Bookworm by Lucy Mangan were among...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2021/12/31/my-books-of-the-year-2021/
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo was the joint winner of the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside The Testaments by Margaret Atwood which I read earlier this year. It follows the lives of 12 ...
The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam Second Place by Rachel Cusk The Promise by Damon Galgut The Sweetness of Water by�...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2021/07/29/the-booker-prize-2021-longlist/
It’s that time of year again – the 2021 Booker Prize longlist will be announced on Tuesday 27th July and I have made a list of predictions in terms of what I think could be some strong possi...
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/
There are lots of reasons why 2020 has been an unusual year. One of them is that several books I have both read and enjoyed have won major literary prizes this year – more often tha...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2020/12/27/my-books-of-the-year-2020/
I have read four books on this year’s Booker Prize longlist so far. All four are debut novels – there are eight in total on the 13-strong longlist – and two of them have made the shortlist....
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2020/10/25/four-books-from-the-booker-prize-2020-longlist/
The Booker Prize 2020 longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: The New Wilderness by Diane Cook This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Who They Was by Ga...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2020/08/02/the-booker-prize-2020-longlist/
Booker Prize longlist predictions are rarely dominated by one book, but the question of whether or not The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel will make the cut will shape a lot of the debate t...
2019 is the first year non-fiction has more or less overtaken fiction in my reading. This is partly due to shadowing the Wellcome Book Prize at the beginning of the year. My favourite titles from...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2019/12/29/my-books-of-the-year-2019/
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/
The Booker Prize longlist (no longer sponsored by the Man Group) for 2019 is due to be announced on Wednesday 24th July which means it’s time for another game of what Julian Barnes once termed ...
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/
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/
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 ...