My Normandy Book Club Final List 2023 – 2024


Book Club

I have loved reading for so long that it isn’t a surprise that I’m now running 2 book clubs – one here in Normandy where I live (It’s been going now for over 15 years) and the second one is  called the Read Soul Lit Book Club and it’s on its third year over on […]

July 20, 2023

Stella Prize 2021 Longlist Announcement


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I had the pleasure of watching the Stella Prize 2021 Longlist announcement  this morning on YouTube. It’s actually the first time I took the time to do that in a while. I don’t think I’ve followed any major literary prize closely since Bernadine Evaristo had to share The Booker Prize win with Margaret Atwood.  That […]

March 4, 2021

My Thoughts on Women’s Prize 2020 Longlist


Literary Prizes

The Women’s Prize 2020 longlist was just announced very late in the evening few days ago.  I woke up to the news on Twitter the next day.  As disappointed as I was with the prize last year, you’re probably wondering what the heck am I doing on here posting about it this year.  I couldn’t […]

March 3, 2020

Man Booker International Prize 2018 Longlist


Literary Prizes

I had to come on here to talk about the Man Booker International Prize 2018 longlist.  It looks a lot more interesting than The Women’s Prize 2018 longlist, which didn’t move me one iota.  The Man Booker International Prize always seems to have that right amount of flavor and difference to get a lot of readers […]

March 12, 2018

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2017


Bookish Stuff, Literary Prizes

The 2017 Baileys prize for women’s fiction longlist: Stay With Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò (Canongate) The Power by Naomi Alderman (Viking) Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (Hogarth) Little Deaths by Emma Flint (Picador) The Mare by Mary Gaitskill (Serpent’s Tail) The Dark Circle by Linda Grant (Virago) The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride (Faber & Faber) […]

March 8, 2017

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Longlist Predictions


Literary Prizes

The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the literary prizes  thatI look forward to the most.  It is a prestigious UK  prize, founded in 1996, that honors great women writers from all over the world. Wednesday, March 8th the Baileys Women’s Prize Longlist will be announced.  Traditionally the longlist contains 20 choices however […]

March 5, 2017

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016


Bookish Stuff

It’s that time of year again!  The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 longlist was announced earlier today.  The list is surprising and vast in subject matter.  These 20 novels were chosen from a list of 150 books which the judges read and narrowed down between themselves.  There are some oldies and some debut novels […]

March 8, 2016