My 2025 Booker Wish List - A life in books
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7 December 1962 He was lying on a varnished wooden board, the top of a boxed-in radiator. The board was exactly as wide as his shoulders and he knew, from painful experience, he must sit up like a man emerging from his own coffin. Roll over and he would be on the floor. You never … Continue reading The Land in Winter | Andrew Miller| This Reading Life
September’s a lean month for paperbacks but there are a few that stand out, beginning with one of my books of last year which won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and is now longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. Andrew Miller’s The Land in Winter is set over a few months in 1962/3 […] The post Paperbacks to Look Out For in September 2025 appeared first on A life in books.| A life in books
My fifth selection from the Booker List. I have read Andrew Miller before, both ‘Pure’ and ‘Oxygen’ which was shortlisted for the Booker some years ago. I remember that I loved ‘Oxygen’ and because I loved it so much I read ‘Pure’ which was a little more off kilter (which can be expected if the […]| Yarra Book Club
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
