Books On The Go

Anna and Annie discuss the LA Times Book Prize finalists.  We fail to predict which books will be on the Women's Prize longlist but recommend this video by Eric Karl Anderson and Anna James.

Our book of the week is The Fell by Sarah Moss, the award-winning author of Ghost Wall and Summerwater. A short novel about a woman who breaks quarantine to go for a walk, it brings back the claustrophobia of isolation and raises the question, are we ready for pandemic fiction?  A great book club read.

Coming up: Everybody by Olivia Laing

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Anna and Annie discuss reading recommendations for Black History Month.

Our book of the week is Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by award-winning author Richard Flanagan.  He exposes the secrets, lies, chemical dyes and environmental harm behind what is marketed as a clean and healthy food.  We will never eat farmed salmon again after reading this book. Richard Flanagan will be in conversation with Kerry O'Brien at Adelaide Writers' Week.

Coming up: The Fell by Sarah Moss.   

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Anna and Annie discuss the 2022 Rathbone Folio Prize shortlist.

Our book of the week is Devotion by Hannah Kent, author of the multi award-winning Burial Rites.  Devotion is a queer love story set in Prussia and Australia in the 1830s.  Described as 'utterly original' (Heather Rose), 'a glorious love story' (Sarah Winman) and 'stunning' (Evie Wyld) it was Booktopia's favourite book of 2021 and we predict will be on many awards lists. 

Coming up: Toxic by Richard Flanagan and The Fell by Sarah Moss.

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Anna and Annie discuss the Costa Book of the Year The Kids by Hannah Lowe, the 2022 Dublin International LIterary Award Longlist and the Adelaide Writers' Week program.

Our book of the week is The Sentence, the new novel by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author  Louise Erdrich.  Set in Minneapolis in 2020, it tells the story of badass heroine Tookie, her marriage, and a ghost haunting the bookshop where she works.  We loved it.

Coming up: Devotion by Hannah Kent.

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Anna and Annie discuss joyful stories, vampires and other book trends for 2022.

Our book of the week is The Appeal by Janice Hallett.  This debut crime novel with a nod to Agatha Christie has been a Sunday Times best-seller.  Recommended as a fun holiday read.

Coming up: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.

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Anna and Annie discuss the Costa Book Awards category winners.

Our book of the week is Permafrost by S J Norman, their debut short story collection.  Described as 'astonishing'  (Christos Tsiolkas) and 'a literary genius'  (Hannah Kent) these stories are haunting, visceral and moving.  Highly recommended.

Coming up: The Appeal by Janice Hallett.

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Anna and Annie discuss the New York Times Best Books of 2021.

Our book of the week is Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas, the multi-award winning author of The Slap, Barracuda and Damascus. This novel centres on a man writing a book about a retired porn star and seeking beauty in the world.  'A scorching, mythic work with a heart of the sweetest intimacy' (Helen Garner on point as always), we loved it.

Coming up: Permafrost by S J Norman.

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Anna, Amanda and Annie pick our top ten books of 2021.

Our favourite reads (in no particular order) were:

1.  Moth by Melody Razak

2. Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down

3. The Magician by Colm Toíbín

4. Phosphorescence by Julia Baird

5. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

6. The Luminous Solution by Charlotte Wood

7. The Promise by Damon Galgut

8. Assembly by Natasha Brown

9. Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas

10. The False Rose by Jacob Wegelius translated by Peter Graves.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the Costa Book Awards Shortlists.

Our book of the week is The Promise by Damon Galgut, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. This novel follows the crash and burn of a White South African family over a generation, against the backdrop of a changing country. A worthy winner, Amanda also recommends the audiobook narrated by Peter Noble.

Coming up: 7 1/2 by Christos Tsiolkas and our Top 10 Books of 2021.

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Anna and Annie discuss the winners of the Goldsmiths Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize and the National Book Awards.

Our book of the week is The Magician by multi-award winning author Colm Tóibín. His latest novel, based on the life of Thomas Mann, is a New York Times Notable Book, a Best Book of Fall 2021 (Time) and described as an 'ode to a 20th-century genius' (O Magazine).  We loved it.

Coming up: The Promise by Damon Galgut.

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