Booker Prize Longlist 2020

Beschikbaar 3-9-20. From an acclaimed Guardian First Book Award finalist comes a debut novel 'brutal and beautiful in equal measure' (Emily St. John Mandel) Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away.

'As natural as the grass grows.' Chinua Achebe'[Dangarembga] is a wonderful creator of character.' Doris Lessing'[A] Masterpiece.' New York Times'Searing and enlightening.' Sefi Atta, author of Everything Good Will ComeIn this ten

A searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal - for fans of Jenny Offill's Weather, Deborah Levy's Hot Milk and Diana Evans' Ordinary People'Taut, unsettling, ferocious' Fatima Bhutto, author of The Run

expected themes of drugs, violence, poverty and social justice - and the unexpected - family, futility and fragility' Graeme Armstrong, author of Young Team'An astonishingly powerful book' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Ac

As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, He

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC BOOK OF 2020CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM'You have to read Apeirogon

Beschikbaar vanaf 3-9-20. 'DEVASTATING' Marlon James, 'A MODERN CLASSIC' Andrew Sean Greer, 'INCREDIBLE' Lemn Sissay, 'BRILLIANT' Salman Rushdie, 'MAGNIFICIENT' Aminatta Forna, 'EPIC' Mary Morris, 'WONDERFUL' Laila Lalami, 'UNFORG

'A new literary star' The TimesA Reese Witherspoon and Zoella Book Club PickA Sunday Times, Guardian, Times, Daily Mail, i, Grazia and Evening Standard Summer ReadWhen Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for 'kidnapping' the whi

Redhead By The Side Of The Road (Anne Tyler)

'Douglas Stuart is fierce and loving and lovely. He shows us lots of monstrous behavior, but not a single monster . .. His book leaves us gutted and marveling' New York Times An Observer 'Best Debut Novelist of 2020'It is 1981.

'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald' Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail'An act of such breath-taking imagination, daring and detail that the journey we are on is believable and the d

'A truly gifted writer' Sebastian Barry
'Pure gold' Emma Donoghue
'Remarkable' Chigozie Obioma
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