The Free-Range Bookclub
Bookclubbers without boundaries in Nelson, New Zealand
Category: Booker Prize
Western Lane – Chetna Maroo
READ FOR BOOKERTHON In this coming of age novel, 11-year-old Gopi takes up competitive squash as a way to cope with the grief of her mother’s death and the challenges of being an ethnic minority living in Britain. ● After some wordy novels on… Continue Reading “Western Lane – Chetna Maroo”
Prophet Song – Paul Lynch
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Prophet Song is set in an alternative Dublin where a tyrannical government is weaving its way into people’s lives, and society is slowly collapsing. It focuses on one family who suffer in many ways and one mother, Eilish Stack, who is… Continue Reading “Prophet Song – Paul Lynch”
Bookerthon – 2022
❝ The announcement of the long list was an impressive start to the 2022 Booker season. Strong contenders from around the world covered off important real life events or offered evocative interpretations of them. We had already read some of the books and were… Continue Reading “Bookerthon – 2022”
The Seven Moons of Maali Ameida
READ FOR BOOKERTHON A war photographer dies in 1990 during the Sri Lankan civil war and is caught inbetween life and the afterlife. He has seven days, or seven moons, to discover who killed him, ensure a series of important photographs he has taken… Continue Reading “The Seven Moons of Maali Ameida”
Treacle Walker – Alan Garner
READ FOR BOOKERTHON From GoodReads: Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, vivid storytelling that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him. ❝ I will admit… Continue Reading “Treacle Walker – Alan Garner”
Oh William! – Elizabeth Strout
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Writer Lucy Barton is asked by her ex-husband William to join him on a journey to investigate a recently uncovered family secret. A story about Lucy and William’s ever changing relationship as much as it is about the family secret. Set… Continue Reading “Oh William! – Elizabeth Strout”
The Trees – Percival Everett
READ FOR BOOKERTHON In Money, Mississippi white folk suddenly start turning up dead, savagely beaten and with a black man’s body present, cradling the dead’s severed testicles. A satirical look at the US’s grim history of racial violence. ❝ The Trees is set in… Continue Reading “The Trees – Percival Everett”
Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
READ FOR BOOKERTHON In New Ross, Ireland in 1985 a man named Bill Furlong works tirelessly delivering coal and firewood to the townsfolk, when he makes an unexpected discovery. A short book about community and complicity. ❝ As I got underway with Small Things Like… Continue Reading “Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan”
Glory – NoViolet Bulawayo
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Glory is an Orwellian retelling of Zimbabwe’s political history. It centers around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional country. Told via anthropomorphised animals there is much drama, humour and colourful observations. ❝ Glory is a… Continue Reading “Glory – NoViolet Bulawayo”
At Night All Blood is Black – David Diop
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel ❝ Alfa and his ‘more than brother’ Mademba are Senglese, fighting for the French in World War I. Seen as ‘chocolate soldiers’ they are considered able to scare the life out of the enemy. After Mademba is fatally wounded… Continue Reading “At Night All Blood is Black – David Diop”
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