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Bookends #4 March 2018

March 19, 2018March 23, 2018 BookerTalk 4 Comments Comma Press, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

I didn’t get around to a Bookends post last week but I hope this episode makes up for that deficiency.

Six Degrees of Separation

From terror to persecution in six links

December 2, 2017July 1, 2021 BookerTalk 17 Comments Antonia Hodgson, Charles Dickens, Emma Donaghue, Lynne Reid Banks, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Oscar Wilde

Six books form a chain from terrified children to a falsely imprisoned author.

Bookends Top Ten Tuesday

10 under rated books

January 17, 2017March 14, 2022 BookerTalk 57 Comments African authors, Antonia Hodgson, Dinaw Mengestu, Donal Ryan, Jim Crace, Kwei Quartey, Machado de Assis, Michael Orthofer, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Stanley Middleton, Yewande Omotoso

Which books deserve more attention? Here are 10 suggestions for ones to take a closer look at

Writers on reading: Frank Kafka

April 18, 2015April 10, 2015 BookerTalk 9 Comments Albert Camus, Emile Zola, Frank Kafka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re

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Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong’o

November 9, 2013August 23, 2014 BookerTalk 20 Comments African literature, African writers, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, world literature

Some novels can make you laugh; some can make you cry. Just occasionally they can make you angry. There was

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