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BookerTalk September 27, 2016 19 Comments Freeman Wills Crofts, hans Fallada, Howard Jacobson, Mo Yan, Oliver Goldsmith, Patina Gappah, Peter Ackroyd, Peter Carey, Voltaire, Xue Xinran

Books On My Autumn TBR List

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday looks to that season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and asks what we’ll be reading

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BookerTalk August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 15 Comments Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian fiction

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #20booksofsummer

The Thing Around Your Neck is a collection of 12 stories published by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in various journals in

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BookerTalk October 12, 2015June 6, 2022 13 Comments 2015 Man Booker Prize, Chigozie Obioma

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma [2015 Booker shortlist]

In the small town of Akure in Nigeria, an ambitious father dreams of the illustrious futures awaiting his sons. Ikenna the

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BookerTalk July 29, 2015July 29, 2015 35 Comments 2015 Man Booker Prize, Andrew O'Hagan, Anna Smaill, Anne Enright, Anne Tyler, Anuradha Roy, Bill Clegg, Chigozie Obioma, Hanya Yanagihara, Laila Lalami, Marilynne Robinson, Marlon James, Sunjeev Sahota, Tom McCarthy

Man Booker Prize longlist 2015

I admit defeat. I am clearly not skilled in the art of book prize predictions. When the Man Booker prize judges

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BookerTalk March 24, 2015 13 Comments Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe

Two views of Nigeria: Adichie’s Americanah and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

More than 50 years separate the publication of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah from the book considered the prototype for the modern African novel in

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