Sample Sunday: from an award contender to an award winner
Moving slowly through my stack of owned-but-unread books, I’ve chosen three more candidates for Sample Sunday. They all have titles
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Booker prize
Sample Sunday: Relationships in China, Columbia, India
it’s been a while since I did a Sample Sunday post where I look at the hundreds of unread books
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Sample Sunday: On Students, Activists and Authors
From the 280+ owned-but-unread books on my bookshelves, I’m choosing three whose titles begin with the letter I. Unusually I’ve
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The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi — bleak powerful tale of childhood trauma
The Hiding Place evokes a time when the city of Cardiff was one of the oldest multi-racial communities in Britain.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is an extraordinary novel, a sensual delight that moves across time and
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