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African authors Irish authors Korean authors Nigerian authors Scottish authors Top Ten Tuesday 

Top ten Tuesday: book club recommendations

November 1, 2016 BookerTalk 21 Comments A S Byatt, Charlotte Rogan, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edna O'Brien, Emile Zola, Madeleine Thien, Mark Henshaw, Shin Kyung-sook, Stanley Middleton, Wyl Menmuir

What makes a good read for a book club? A selection of 10 that would stimulate discussion.

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Books On My Autumn TBR List

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

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

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

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

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The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma [2015 Booker shortlist]

October 12, 2015December 28, 2019 BookerTalk 13 Comments 2015 Man Booker Prize, Chigozie Obioma

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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Man Booker Prize longlist 2015

July 29, 2015July 29, 2015 BookerTalk 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

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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