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Tag: Man Booker Prize

Booker Prize Shortlist 2020: a daring, diverse and deserving line-up of authors

12th November 202013th November 2020  Lucy Writers

Our contributors review this year’s Booker Prize shortlist and find a daring and diverse list of authors from around the world who all deserve to be celebrated.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Avni Doshi, Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize, Booker Prize 2020, Brandon Taylor, Canongate, Diane Cook, Douglas Stuart, Faber & Faber, Maata Mengiste, Man Booker Prize, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Busby, Oneworld Publications, Picador, The Booker Prize 2019, Tsitsi Dangarembga

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – a brilliant, compelling portrait of a broken family

29th September 20192nd November 2019  Carla Plieth

Having killed her previous boyfriends as acts of ‘self defence’, will Ayoola’s fourth suitor live to tell the tale? Oyinkan Braithwaite’s Women’s and Booker Prize long listed novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer, makes for fiendishly wicked reading, says our contributor Carla Plieth.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Booker Prize longlist, Man Booker Prize, My Sister The Serial Killer, Nigeria, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Penguin, Penguin Random House, The Booker Prize 2019, Thriller, Women's Prize

Lanny by Max Porter – an astonishing novel rich in folklore, myth and the idioms of the English language

3rd September 20195th September 2019  Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith is captivated by Lanny, Max Porter’s long listed Booker Prize novel about the disappearance of a little boy from an English village. Here, Smith reviews the novel against Porter’s 2015 debut, Grief is the Thing with Feathers.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Assia Wevill, Booker Prize longlist, Brexit, E. M. Forster, Enda Walsh, Environment, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Joan Aiken, Lanny, Man Booker Prize, Max Porter, Neil Gaiman, Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes, The Booker Prize 2019, Virginia Woolf

Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under – a clever, murky retelling of the Oedipus myth

29th April 201930th April 2019  Victoria Smith

Daisy Johnson’s 2018 Man Booker-shortlisted novel, Everything Under, rewrites the Oedipus myth into a mother-daughter story set in an eerie, waterlogged world.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: A Thousand Acres, Anna Leszkiewicz, Brothers Grimm, Cambridge Literary Festival 2019, Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, Fen, Fiction, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Jane Smiley, Man Booker Prize, Novel, Oedipus, Penguin, Revolting Rhymes, Roald Dahl, Vintage
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