Booker International Shortlist 2023: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
Is it time for a Bulgarian winner.
May 15
May 14
August Blue by Deborah Levy
August Blue by Deborah Levy
UK Publication: May 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]
This ARC was provided by Penguin General UK (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
Fully expecting to see this on the Booker Longlist.
May 8
Camp Zero by Author Michelle Min Sterling
Camp Zero by Author Michelle Min Sterling
UK Publication: March 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]
This ARC was provided by John Murray Press (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
It’s the end of the world as we know it…
Synopsis from Goodreads: In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intertwined in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power.
In the far north of Canada sits Camp Zero, an American building project hiding many secrets.
Desperate to help her climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother, Rose agrees to travel to Camp Zero and spy on its architect in exchange for housing. She arrives at the same time as another newcomer, a college professor named Grant who is determined to flee his wealthy family’s dark legacy. Gradually, they realize that there is more to the architect than previously thought, and a disturbing mystery lurks beneath the surface of the camp. At the same time, rumors abound of an elite group of women soldiers living and working at a nearby Cold War-era climate research station. What are they doing there? And who is leading them?
An electrifying page-turner where nothing is as it seems, Camp Zero cleverly explores how the intersection of gender, class, and migration will impact who and what will survive in a warming world.
My Thoughts: This was a really interesting book somewhere between dystopian fiction and a thriller.
The story is told through 3 very distinct narrators Rose a high class prostitute expanding her horizons from the floating city to scout out what is happening in the frozen North. Grant a teacher who while trying to escape his family accepts a job that is not what it promised to be and White Alice a group of women working alone in the North as an outpost of humanity increasingly cut-off from the rest of the world.
While all the voice are unique and interesting it is the way these stories eventually come together that really made the book pop for me.
This is one you need to read and discover the cross overs for yourself so I am not going to say anymore.
Who would like this? I would recommend this to those who enjoy dystopian fiction, humans at the end of the world stories, survival stories and those who enjoy escaping this world into a different future.
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The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
UK Publication: Feb 2015
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★]
This ARC was provided by Faber and Faber Ltd (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
Apr 30
Apr 27
In The Lives Of Puppets by T.J. Klune
In The Lives Of Puppets by T.J. Klune
UK Publication: April 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]
This ARC was provided by Pan Macmillan (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
The Pinocchio, Terminator, Wall-E smash up I never realised was missing from my life.
Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai
Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai
UK Publication: March 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]
This ARC was provided by Head of Zeus (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
It’s just a jump to the left….
Go As A River by Shelley Read
Go As A River by Shelley Read
UK Publication: April 2023
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★★]
This ARC was provided by Random House UK (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review.
I’m not crying, you’re crying…
Apr 18
The Official Booker International Shortlist 2023
Well done Tracy and Rachel who both successfully predicted 4 of the 6 closely followed by the scientific system and me who both got 3.
Unfortunately I have only read 2 of these so another busy reading month for me….
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