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
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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
Books I Read in November 2024
November 15, 2024 · 11:57 pm Nine Pints by Rose George is a non-fiction about “the mysterious, miraculous world of blood”. The title refers to the approximate amount of blood
Books I Read in October 2024
November 17, 2024 · 8:26 pm The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith is the seventh outing for Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott’s private detective agency. When they are approached by
Books I Read in December 2024
January 11, 2024 · 8:51 pm I often seek out the books which receive rare positive reviews in Private Eye magazine and Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis is a truly eye-opening
My Books of the Year 2024
January 12, 2024 · 6:34 pm One of the stand-out novels I read in 2024 was Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld which is a fun and