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Anna and Annie discuss The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak.  Shafak is an award-winning Turkish-British novelist whose previous novel 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World was short-listed for the Booker Prize.  We loved this latest novel set in Cyprus and London and featuring a sassy fig tree.

Coming up: The Magician by Colm Tóibín. 

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Anna and Annie discuss the 2021 Booker Prize winner The Promise by Damon Galgut.

Our book of the week is Bewilderment by Richard Powers, the follow up to his Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Overstory and also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This is a story about a father and son which touches on mass extinction and science fiction. It's an instant New York Times best-seller, an Oprah's Book Club Selection and long-listed for the 2021 National Book Award and 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.  But what did Anna and Annie think?

Coming up: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the 2021 Booker Prize winner, The Promise by Damon Galgut.

Our books of the week are Empire of Pain: The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe and Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr Anna Lembke.  Both books address the opioid epidemic in America, one focussing on the Sackler family and their responsibility and the other focussing on the nature of addiction.  We recommend these for Non-fiction November.

Coming up: Bewilderment by Richard Powers.

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Anna and Annie discuss Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum.

Rabbits for Food is a novel about a woman living with depression who checks into a psychiatric ward.  Described as 'bitingly funny' (New York Times) and 'absolute genius' (The Boston Globe) it was a New York Times Notable Book, a, NPR Favourite Book and a LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2019.

Coming up: Bewilderment by Richard Powers.

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Anna and Annie discuss the Giller Prize Shortlist.

Our book of the week is Matrix by Lauren Groff, the follow-up to her hugely successful Fates and Furies. This novel about Marie de France becoming the prioress of an abbey is a New York Times Bestseller and has been shortlisted for the National Book Awards.  

Coming up: Bewilderment by Richard Powers.

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Anna and Annie discuss the Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Abdulrazak Gurner. 

Our book of the week is Assembly by Natasha Brown. A short novel about a Black woman's experience in modern Britain, this has been described as 'diamond-sharp, timely and urgent' (The Observer) and 'the literary debut of the summer' (Vogue) and is  short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize 2021.  We loved this small gem. 

Coming up: Matrix by Lauren Groff.

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Anna and Amanda discuss Real Estate, the latest book by Deborah Levy in her living autobiography series. 

Levy has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, for her novels Swimming Home and Hot Milk, and has won acclaim recently for her non-fiction works, with the best-selling The Cost of Living a New York Times Notable Book and listed in the Guardian's '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'.  Real Estate follows Levy's journey from London to a writing fellowship in Paris and has been described as 'a dialogue between art and life' (The Guardian). 

Coming up: Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum.

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Anna and Annie discuss the 2021 Booker Prize Shortlist.

Our book of the week is Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. This sweeping historical novel about a 1950s woman aviator and modern-day movie star has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.  Described as a 'soaring masterclass' (Telegraph), the Donna Tartt comparisons are apt. 

Coming up: Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum.

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The new Sally Rooney novel is here!  Anna and Annie discuss the publishing event and enormous success of the release of Rooney's third book.

Beautiful World, Where Are You is a novel about four friends, examining their relationships and touching on world issues.  Perfect for book clubs, there is so much to discuss.  Praised for its 'touching honesty' (Financial Times) and 'originality' (Esquire) this was Watersones' 2021 best-selling fiction title after only three days on the shelves.

Coming up: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the 2021 Women's Prize winner Susanna Clarke for Piranesi, a follow-up story about #BookTok trends and the winners of the 2021 Wainwright Prize for nature writing.  Amanda recommends this interview with Merlin Sheldrake on Conversations with Richard Fidler. 

Our book of the week is Minor Detail by Adania Shibli translated by Elisabeth Jacquette.  A short, powerful novel about a crime in 1949 and a young woman investigating in modern-day Palestine, it was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Awards for translated literature. It was also the group read-along for the Women in Translation Month #WITReadathon.

Coming up: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney and Real Estate by Deborah Levy.

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