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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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