Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs)
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Roy and Celestial are happily(ish) married for a year and a half. Suddenly everything falls apart, how they handle the fallout will come to define who they are as individuals and as a couple. Author: Tayari Jones Title: An American Marriage Press: One World Rating: 8 This was truly beautiful. It’s part prose part epistolary …
Four siblings in New York visit a gypsy woman in her filthy apartment and learn the dates of their deaths. What they hear will change the courses of each of their lives whether they think they believe or not. None of them were prepared for the information they receive. Title: The Immortalists Author: Chloe Benjamin …
If you don’t already know the premise of This is Going to Hurt then you’re living under an even bigger, darker, more impenetrable rock than I am (or you don’t live in the UK as I assume this has not crossed beyond the borders of our wonderful NHS). Simply it is one junior doctors account …
I was fortunate to pick up a proof from the Bloomsbury stand at London Book Fair in April. Cannot wait to see how it does when it is released in August. Robert Appleyard leaves his northern mining village to walk through the countryside in search of nothing in particular. He sleeps in fields and works …
Edie has left school at fourteen because her father needs her help on the farm. The area is short on men since the end of the war and the depression is beginning to take hold. That summer Edie is missing her sister and finding herself when a tall, intelligent stranger Constance appears. She is kind …
Johanna lives in Wolverhampton with her once upon a time musician father, post-natal depressed mother and her four brothers. She has to get out. She has to reinvent herself and build herself into a girl she thinks she’d like to be. This journey takes her into music criticism, sex, love and more sex. But once …
In light of last week's announcement that the Man Booker is back to plain old Booker after Man Group withdrew its sponsorship I thought it was a good time to share my thoughts on the steady decline of the UK's most prestigious literary prize. I wrote this as part of my studies at Kingston University …
Author: Edward St Aubyn Title: Dunbar Press: Vintage (PRH) Date of Publication: 2017 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: This was a lovely thoughtful gift from my class secret santa Reading Time: 4 days Rating: 2 It’s been a while since I read a ‘bad’ book but I think this might …
I listened to this on the recommendation of a friend (thanks Zoey, it was fab) and because I like learning about new things and am partial to the odd conspiracy theory indulgence I gave it a shot. The arc of the podcast is wonderfully engaging and the integration of interviews and news footage from the …
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Author: Anna Burns Title: Milkman Press: Faber and Faber Date of Publication: 2018 Prizes: Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: Reading Time: 10 days Rating: 8 So I’ve been dying to read this since it was longlisted for the Booker way back in July …
Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs) 