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Booker International 2021 – Our Predictions for Winner

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Will any of us correctly call it this year?

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Booker International Shortlist 2021 – The Employees

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Will it work out for this one?

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Booker International Shortlist 2021 – In Memory of Memory

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Will this be the Booker to remember?

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Booker International Shortlist 2021 – When We Cease to Understand the World

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Is this the best book in the Booker World?

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Read Around the World May 2021 – Bahrain

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This month we are of to an island so in the good ole English tradition of Desert Island Disks we have chosen which books to take us there.

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Booker International Shortlist 2021 – The War of the Poor

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Will this one win the Booker war?

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Booker International Shortlist 2021 – The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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Any danger that this is our winner?

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Booker International Shortlist 2021 – At Night all Blood is Black

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Will this be the one on the night?

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Sorrowland by Rivers Soloman

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Sorrowland by Rivers Soloman
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]

This ARC was provided by Random House UK (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.

Three word reviews OMG! & WTF!

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The Girl and the Mountain by Mark Lawrence

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The Girl and the Mountain  by Mark Lawrence
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2021
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★]

This ARC was provided by Harper Collins UK (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.

One word review – Frosty!. Two word review Totally Iced!

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