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Not my favourite prize but I can’t resist putting together a wish list for the Booker. To be eligible for this year’s prize all books must be published in the UK or Ireland between 1st October 2025 and 30th September 2026 and have been written in English. The judges usually stick to twelve although sometimes […]
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Ana Kinsella’s affectionate portrayal of London life, Look Here, was my non-fiction read for April 2025’s Snapshot of My Reading. I enjoyed her collection of short pieces so much I was delighted to spot Frida Slattery as Herself on NetGalley. Kinsella’s first novel is a two-hander following Frida from her early acting days, and John
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Lots of new fiction to look out for in May including several by favourite authors beginning with Claire Fuller’s Hunger and Thirst which follows a group of young people who come together in the ‘80s. Sixteen-year-old Ursula’s social worker finds her a job in the post room of an art college where she meets Sue
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Quite a mixture this month including one from a much-loved author with a long career behind her and two others by writers I’d not come across before. The novel I’m reading is My Husband by French writer Maud Ventura (transl. Emma Ramadan) in which the narrator is still in the grips of obsessive passion for
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