The Night Watchman is a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress, grappling with the worst and best impulses of human nature.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Night Watchman
Category Archives: Writing
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her employer, and a connection that threatens to undo them both.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing explores the confusion of having expectations upturned, and the awkwardness and pain of being human in our increasingly dislocated world.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Yield
Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award The Yield is a beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a hypnotic story of guilt, denial, the fraught relationship between parents and children, and how art can both be ruthlessly destructive and restore sanity.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: Second Place
With its examination of the possibility that art can both save and destroy us, Second Place is deeply affirming of the human soul, while grappling with its darkest demons.
Reading a Prize Winner With Booko: In At The Deep End
In At The Deep End is a deliciously disarming debut novel about a twenty-something Londoner who discovers that she may have been looking for love and pleasure in all the wrong places.
Monday Inspo
It’s a new week, and it’s starting out to be a whopper with today being a public holiday! This week on the blog we’re sharing our favourite fantasy novels but for now, it’s time to curl up with book.
#tuesdaychat
Lee Child, Tom Clancy, Harlan Coben, Jane Harper, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, Ian Rankin – there are so many crime writers – which is your favourite?
Monday Inspo
Happy Monday everyone, we hope you all had a safe weekend. On the blog this week we’ll be sharing the newest crime novels on the market and thought we’d share this little quote from one of our fav crime writers.
