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Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: A Passage North
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.