I have had David Miller’s novel Snowdrops on my “to read” list for quite a while, after reading a synopsis when it appeared on Amazon’s Rising Stars list earlier this year. It has since then received much acclaim, making it first onto this year’s Man Booker Shortlist, and then subsequently being selected for the final [...]
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Man Booker Prize Longlist 2011
On July 26th the long list for the 2011 Man Booker prize was revealed. For me this is always one of the most important events in the literary calendar. Although I don’t tend to slavishly read the entire list, it does usually form a sizeable part of my reading list for the forthcoming twelve months, [...]
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
I actually received my copy of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood as a prize in a competition being run by Foyles bookshop for World Book Night earlier this year. As the prize could have been any one of the twenty five titles being promoted I was doubly pleased when the package landed on the [...]
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
A member of an on-line book club I use highly recommended The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam, a novel which I had not previously come across. When I asked for some further info about it she suggested I read Old Filth first. Although The Man in the Wooden Hat is not strictly [...]