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2021 Booker

Posted on October 31, 2021 by

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⫸ There are many safety nets which we turn to in a time of ongoing global uncertainty, and one of them is the search for the truth. Opinions of experts and everyday people, the reliability of data and keeping up to date with what… Continue Reading “2021 Booker”

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Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead

Posted on October 30, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON The story of daredevil female aviator Marian Graves and her plans to circumnavigate the globe. Marian and Jamie Graves are rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, then raised by their uncle in Montana. After encountering a pair… Continue Reading “Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead”

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Bewilderment – Richard Powers

Posted on October 23, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON An astrobiologist helps his neuro-divergent son understand our beautiful, imperilled planet Theo Byrne is an astrobiologist looking for life in space while also caring for his behaviourally challenged son, Robin. Theo’s wife, an environmental activist, has died in a car crash… Continue Reading “Bewilderment – Richard Powers”

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The Promise – Damon Galgut

Posted on October 16, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON The lives and deaths of a white South African family, and a promise made to their black housekeeper When Rachel, a 40-year-old white South African dies in 1986, her country is transitioning out of apartheid. The subsequent decline of the family… Continue Reading “The Promise – Damon Galgut”

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The Fortune Men – Nadifa Mohamed

Posted on October 9, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON Set in 1952 in Cardiff, The Fortune Men details the real events surrounding the wrongful imprisonment of Mahmood Mattan, a Somali seaman. False witness accounts and racist policing led to him being found guilty of the murder of a local shopkeeper. In prison… Continue Reading “The Fortune Men – Nadifa Mohamed”

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A Passage North – Anuk Arudpragasam

Posted on October 2, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON Sri Lankan man Krishnan receives two messages, the first informing him his grandmother’s caretaker Rani has died, found in the bottom of a well with her neck broken. The second is from Anjum an activist Krishnan loved years ago, which stirs… Continue Reading “A Passage North – Anuk Arudpragasam”

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No One Is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood

Posted on September 25, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON A woman with new online prominence grapples with the reality of the cyber world and real life ⫸ “The internet, referred to as ‘the portal’, is given a life of itself in this novel, a place where the unnamed protagonist is… Continue Reading “No One Is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood”

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Blue Ticket – Sophie MackIntosh

Posted on September 22, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo Set in a dystopian future, all women, on the first day of their menstruation, are allocated a future at random: a white ticket grants marriage and children; a blue ticket grants a career and freedom. Women are told this… Continue Reading “Blue Ticket – Sophie MackIntosh”

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The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald

Posted on August 25, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie Penelope’s Fitzgerald’s last novel, written in 1997, details the early life of the German romantic poet Friedrich von Hardenberg who used the pseudonym Novalis and his love for 12-year-old Sophie von Kuhn. Set in provincial Saxony in the 1790s, the… Continue Reading “The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald”

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Death In Her Hands – Otessa Moshfegh

Posted on July 30, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel An investigation of an elderly woman’s mental wanderings after finding a note referring to a murder. Vesta Gul is an expected Moshfegh character: a female loner with convoluted, dangerous thoughts. She is 72, living alone in the woods after… Continue Reading “Death In Her Hands – Otessa Moshfegh”

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