Books I Read in October 2024
November 26, 2024 · 7:51 pm Lives of the Wives by Carmela Ciuraru outlines the tempestuous relationships and careers of five literary couples: Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge, Elsa Morante
Month: November 2024
Books I Read in March 2024
April 8, 2024 · 9:23 am Lessons by Ian McEwan spans the life of Roland Baines, born shortly after the Second World War. Taking in several major world crises from the
Books I Read in April 2024
May 18, 2024 · 6:49 pm Red Sauce Brown Sauce by Felicity Cloake is a travel memoir which documents the Guardian food writer’s “British breakfast odyssey” cycling around the UK
Books I Read in May 2024
June 17, 2024 · 12:05 pm Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld is one of my most anticipated books of 2024. Sally is a comedy writer for the late-night sketch show
Books I Read in June 2024
July 15, 2024 · 9:13 am I went to the Hay Festival for a couple of days at the end of May and picked up Regenesis by George Monbiot from
The Booker Prize 2024: Predictions, Possibilities and Preferences
July 22, 2024 · 1:19 pm In my Booker Prize blog post last year, I noted that my longlist predictions lists in 2020 and 2024 included the eventual winners in those
The Booker Prize 2024 Longlist
August 7, 2024 · 4:52 pm The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀Old God’s Time by Sebastian
Books I Read in July 2024
August 19, 2024 · 9:49 am Stasiland by Anna Funder won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2004 (now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize) and chronicles the lives
Books I Read in August 2024
September 9, 2024 · 12:28 pm The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell is a fictionalised account of the marriage of 15-year-old Lucrezia di Cosima de’Medici to Alfonso, Duke of Ferrera
Books I Read in September 2024
October 13, 2024 · 7:54 pm The Fraud by Zadie Smith weaves together three storylines based on true events in the 19th century. A Cockney butcher arrives in London from