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The Hysterical Hamster
And the winner is… (Award-Palooza edition!!!)
People say there are too many book awards. Those people are absolutely correct. But fuck...
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Briefs Thoughts On This Year’s Ditmar Novel Shortlist
It’s Ditmar time!
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Brief Thoughts On This Year’s BSFA Novel Shortlist
I’m not British so I can’t vote for the BSFA, but here are my thoughts anyway.
Read MoreBook Review: Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
What’s It About This is second novel in the Southern Reach trilogy and follows directly on from the events of Annihilation. All you need to know is that a new head has been appointed to lead the Southern Reach (the pseudo...
Read MoreBook Review: The First Fifteen Live of Harry August by Claire North
What’s It About In 2013, Kate Atkinson published the very good, and critically acclaimed, Life After Life of which the sequel, A God in Ruins, has just been published. Life After Life follows the many lives and deaths of...
Read MoreAnd the winner of the Clarke Award is….
… the magnificent Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel – most definitely one of my favourite books for the 14/15 award season period.* (Thanks to Jonathan Strahan for pointing this out to me on Facebook this...
Read MoreNominees announced for the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction
Announced yesterday (or earlier this morning my time) were the six nominees for the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction. You can check out the very schmick website here or, you know, lower your eyes and check out my...
Read MoreThe Shortlist for the Folio Prize has been announced
And here it is: 10:04 by Ben Lerner (Granta) All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (Faber) Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (Granta) Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Granta) Family Life by Akhil Sharma (Faber) How to Be Both by...
Read MoreAnd The Winners of the Costa Book Awards are…
How to Be Both by Ali Smith in the best novel category and Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey for best first novel. The announcement (including winners of the other categories) is here. Absolutely endorse the best novel...
Read MoreBook Review: Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
Last year, Kirstyn and I spoke very highly of Claire Messud’s sixth novel, The Woman Upstairs, on the Writer and The Critic podcast. It’s a book that refuses to shy away from the raw, passionate emotions of the lead...
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