1001 Books Round-Up September 2022
This month’s winners and losers
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Sep 30
Sep 28
Read Around the World September 2022: Tonga
We spent September on the idyllic Pacific islands of Tonga but how did we visit and what did we learn?
Lessons by Ian McEwan
Lessons by Ian McEwan
UK Publication: September 2022
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★]
This ARC was provided by Random House UK (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
Sep 13
Lost in Time by A.G.Riddle
Lost in Time by A.G.Riddle
UK Publication: September 2022
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★★]
This ARC was provided by Head of Zeus (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
Two-word review – Mind Blown
Sep 11
The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly
The Skeleton Key by Author Erin Kelly
UK Publication: September 2022
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]
This ARC was provided by Hodder & Stoughton (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
Creepily Dark
Sep 7
BookWorm Recommends: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
UK Publication: October 2021
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★★]
Wow just wow. My first Amor Towles and it won’t be my last
Sep 6
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
UK Publication: April 2019
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★]
This ARC was provided by Harper Collins UK (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
Can justice ever be just black or white?
Booker Longlist: After Sappho
So our panel rounds out the longlist with After Sappho.
After Sappho – reviewed by panelists Book Worm, Anita and Tracy
Selby Wynn Schwartz is already an award-winning writer, but with After Sappho she joins that select band of authors who have been longlisted for the Booker for their debut novel.
Synopsis from Booker Prize website:
A joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers from the past, as they battle for control over their lives, for liberation and for justice.
Told in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, After Sappho hails the female torchbearers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
WHAT did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born.
Sarah Bernhardt – Colette – Eleanora Duse – Lina Poletti – Josephine Baker – Virginia Woolf… these are just a few of the women sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic, furious and funny – in After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a work that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past – and also offers hope for our present, and our futures.
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