Books
The Booker Prize 2024: Predictions, Possibilities and Preferences
July 22, 2023 · 1:19 pm In my Booker Prize blog post last year, I noted that my longlist predictions lists ...
The Booker Prize 2024 Longlist
August 7, 2023 · 4:52 pm The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: A Spell ...
Books I Read in July 2024
August 19, 2023 · 9:49 am Stasiland by Anna Funder won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2004 (now ...
Books I Read in August 2024
September 9, 2023 · 12:28 pm The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell is a fictionalised account of the marriage of ...
Books I Read in September 2024
October 13, 2023 · 7:54 pm The Fraud by Zadie Smith weaves together three storylines based on true events in ...
Books I Read in November 2024
November 15, 2023 · 11:57 pm Nine Pints by Rose George is a non-fiction about “the mysterious, miraculous world of ...
Books I Read in June 2024
July 27, 2024 · 3:58 pm Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein won the first Women’s ...
Books I Read in October 2024
November 17, 2023 · 8:26 pm The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith is the seventh outing for Cormoran Strike and ...
Books I Read in December 2023
January 11, 2024 · 8:51 pm I often seek out the books which receive rare positive reviews in Private Eye ...
My Books of the Year 2024
January 12, 2024 · 6:34 pm One of the stand-out novels I read in 2023 was ...
My Most Anticipated Books of 2024
January 13, 2024 · 11:57 am My list of books to read continues to expand and ...
Books I Read in January 2024
February 16, 2024 · 9:53 am Wellness by Nathan Hill is set in the 1990s when Jack and Elizabeth meet ...
