Aug 28
Prophet by Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald
UK Publication: August 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]
This ARC was provided by Random House UK (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
What a wild ride!
Aug 23
Next up for our panel is a debut novel by Johnathan Escoffery: If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery is no stranger to the literary world. His short stories have won several awards including the Plimpton Prize for fiction and 2020 ASME award for fiction. His work has appeared in the Paris Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and American Short Fiction. He has taught creative writing at numerous well-renowned colleges and universities and he founded the Boston Writers of Color Group.
If I Survive You is his debut novel and has received high praise from reviewers and authors across the world.
Synopsis from Booker Prize website: In 1979, as political violence consumes their native Kingston, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami. But they soon learn that the welcome in America will be far from warm.
Trelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a society that regards him with suspicion and confusion. Their eldest son Delano’s longing for a better future for his own children is equalled only by his recklessness in trying to secure it.
As both brothers navigate the obstacles littered in their path – an unreliable father, racism, a financial crisis and Hurricane Andrew – they find themselves pitted against one another. Will their rivalry be the thing that finally tears their family apart?
You can purchase a copy of the book here
Keep reading to find out how our panelists rated this book.
Read moreAug 21
It’s Booker season and our panel has begun our review of all the longlist books. Over the next month, we will be reviewing each of the 13 nominees. First up for our panel is Sebastian Barry’s Old God’s Time. Barry’s novels have been nominated several times for the Booker prize. A Long Long Way and The Secret Scripture were both shortlisted for the Booker, two others were nominated for the longlist, and he has won numerous other literary prizes.
The Booker panel describes Barry’s latest book as a “beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite what it seems, Sebastian Barry explores what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.” Keep reading to see how our panel rated the book.
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The Sentence by Christina Dalcher
UK Publication: August 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]
This ARC was provided by HQ (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
One Word Review Wow – Two word review Just Wow
Aug 15
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
UK Publication: Aug 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]
This ARC was provided by Canongate (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
My First Elizabeth Acevedo but it won’t be my last.
Aug 13
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
UK Publication: August 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]
This ARC was provided by Quercus Books (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
Sounds Banana Pants but it totally works.
Aug 6
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
UK Publication: July 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★]
This ARC was provided by Little Brown Book Group UK (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
One Word review – Madcap
Aug 1
It’s officially out. Keep reading to learn more about this year’s long list and how our panelists did with their predictions.
Read moreJul 29
July and the world reading trip took us to Turkmenistan.
Nicole Del Sesto
