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Recent Prize Winner

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Elif Shafak )

6th September 2019 jng 0

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World Author: Elif Shafak Label: Recent Prize Winner (Man Booker Short List 2019) Year of publication: 2005 Pages: 312 Goodreads: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World […]

Recent Prize Winner

Quichotte (Salman Rushdie)

6th September 2019 jng 0

Quichotte Author: Salman Rushdie Label: Recent Prize Winner (Man Booker Short List 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Pages: 416 Goodreads: Quichotte          

Recent Prize Winner

An Orchestra of Minorities (Chigozie Obioma)

6th September 2019 jng 0

An Orchestra of Minorities Author: Chigozie Obioma Label: Recent Prize Winner (Man Booker Short List 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Pages: 464 Goodreads: An Orchestra of Minorities          

Identity

Girl, Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo)

6th September 2019 jng 0

Girl, Woman, Other Author: Bernardine Evaristo Project: Identity – Racial Identity Label: Recent Prize Winner (Man Booker Short List 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Pages: 464 Goodreads: Girl, Woman, Other        

Recent Prize Winner

Ducks, Newburyport (Lucy Ellmann)

6th September 2019 jng 0

Ducks, Newburyport Author: Lucy Ellmann Label: Recent Prize Winner (Man Booker Short List 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Pages: 1022 Goodreads: Ducks, Newburyport        

Recent Prize Winner

The Testaments (Margaret Atwood)

6th September 2019 jng 0

The Testaments Author: Margaret Atwood Label: Recent Prize Winner (Man Booker Winner 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Pages: 432 Goodreads: The Testaments            

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