Tag Archives: #prizewinner

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: A Passage North

August 13, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

A Passage North has been longlisted for the Booker Prize and describes a young man’s journey into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in a searing novel of longing and loss.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Dictionary of Lost Words

August 12, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape the world and our experience of it.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Invisible Guardian

August 11, 20212021, Crime, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

An international bestseller, The Invisible Guardian is a gripping psychological thriller following a police inspector who reluctantly returns to her hometown to solve a series of eerie murders.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Garden of Evening Mists

August 10, 20212021, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The House on Mango Street

August 9, 20212021, Classics, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous-Sandra Cisneros’ masterpiece, The House on Mango Street, is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery.

Reading a Prize Winner With Booko: Hamnet

August 6, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Hamnet, Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, is a tale of two extraordinary people and a love that draws them together along with a loss that threatens to tear them apart.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: Shuggie Bain

August 5, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. It’s our pick of the day.

Reading a Prize Winner With Booko: In At The Deep End

August 4, 20212021, Funny, My Next Read, New Release, Prize Winner, Recommended, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

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.

Reading a prize winner with Booko: An American Marriage

August 3, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

An American Dream is a moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple and Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.

Reading a prize winner with Booko: The Nickel Boys

August 2, 20212021, My Next Read, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Based on the history of a real reform school that warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great novelist.