It’s that time of year again… I haven’t had much success with my Booker Prize predictions in the last couple of years, but it’s still fun to consider which books might appear on the longlist, due to be announced this Tuesday. Eligible novels must have been published in the UK between…

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29.07.2025

Books I Read in June 2025 | A Little Blog of Books

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan won last year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and is a seamless combination of memoir, history, science and ethics. It connects Flanagan’s father’s experience of being a prisoner of war in Japan (which also inspired his Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North) with 1930s nuclear physicists,…

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30.07.2025

The Booker Prize 2025 Longlist | A Little Blog of Books

The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize was announced today. The 13 books are: Love Forms by Claire Adam The South by Tash Aw Universality by Natasha Brown One Boat by Jonathan Buckley Flashlight by Susan Choi The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai Audition by Katie Kitamura The Rest of Our Lives…

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25.08.2025

Books I Read in July 2025 | A Little Blog of Books

First published in 2000, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is the celebrity chef’s memoir of working in restaurants in New York City. In a loose collection of anecdotes, some drawn from magazine articles, Bourdain recounts how he started out as a line cook fresh from culinary school through to becoming executive chef at Brasserie Les…

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