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The Sunday Times Literary Awards Fiction longlist
Fiction Longlist - listed by order of author's surname
In The Shadow of the Springs I Saw by Barbara Adair (Modjaji Books)
The Heist Men by Andrew Brown (Penguin Fiction)
How to be a Revolutionary by CA Davids (Umuzi)
Stirring the Pot by Quraisha Dawood (Penguin Fiction)
The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers by Finuala Dowling (Kwela)
The Dao of Daniel by Lodewyk G du Plessis and translated by Michiel Heyns (Tafelberg)
Chasing Marian by Amy Heydenrych, Qarnita Loxton, Pamela Power and Gail Schmillel (Pan Macmillan)
Peaches and Smeets by Ashti Juggath (Modjaji Books)
Two Tons o’ Fun by Fred Khumalo (Umuzi)
Notes on Falling by Bronwyn Law Viljoen (Umuzi)
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way by Alistair Mackay (Kwela)
The Daughters of Nandi by Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang (Paivapo)
The Second Verse by Onke Mazibuko (Penguin Fiction)
Things My Mother Left Me by Pulane Mlilo Mpondo (Blackbird Books)
Across the Kala Pani by Shevlyn Mottai (Penguin Fiction)
The Quality of Mercy by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Penguin Fiction)
Hammerman: A Walking Shadow by Mike Nicol (Umuzi)
An Angel’s Demise by Sue Nyathi (Pan Macmillan)
An Unusual Grief by Yewanda Omotoso (Jonathan Ball Publishers/Cassava Republic Press)
The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford (Jonathan Ball Publishers)
In The Midst of it All by Thabile Shange (Kwela)
A Dalliance with Destiny by Aman Singh Maharaj (Austin Macauley Fiction)
A Library to Flee by Etienne van Heerden and translated by Henrietta Rose-Innes (Tafelberg)
Red Tide by Irma Venter and translated by Karin Schimke (Tafelberg)
Elton Baatjies by Lester Walbrugh (Karavan Press)
The Other Me by Joy Watson (Karavan Press)
The Errors of Dr Browne by Mark Winkler (Umuzi)
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Sunday Times Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Sunday Times Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2022, in partnership with Exclusive Books, were announced on Sunday, September 4, 2022.
The Sunday Times Literary Prize, organised by South African newspaper The Sunday Times, has the categories of fiction and nonfiction. Founded in 1989, it has been won by Siphiwe Ndlovu and Terry Kurgan (2019), Bongani Ngqulunga and Harry Kalmer (2018), Zakes…
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Sunday night, Feb, 25, 6-8 PM Eastern time in person, plus livestreaming to the Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/1070491060892140/
Singer/Songwriter Robin Renée will play a few songs for you, and Dennis Slade will be your MC. I'll read a couple stories from my new book Ghosts and Oceans (Zeitgeist Press, 2023). Refreshments will be served!
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TAYLOR SWIFT WINS GRAMMY IN HER CATEGORY.
Taylor Swift made history this Sunday in Los Angeles by winning the fourth Grammy of her career for the album of the year with her "Midnights", at a gala that had women as winners. The 66th edition of the Grammy Awards was held at the Arena in Los Angeles on February 4, 2024.
Taylor Swift manages to make history at the 2024 Grammys by achieving her fourth award for the best album of the year.
In my opinion, it was a very good album, which was released on October 21, 2022. It had a great impact with the girls. His concerts on The Eras Tour were a success as well as his music, which is very good.
MBAPPÉ INFORMS PSG THAT HE WILL LEAVE IN JUNE AND ASSURES THEM THAT HE HAS NOT YET SIGNED WITH MADRID.
On Tuesday morning, Kylian Mbappé took another step in the liturgy of his departure from Paris Saint-Germain after seven seasons. He met with the president of the club, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, for about an hour in the new PSG sports city in Poissy and, according to sources familiar with the conversation, he confirmed what he had already told him in writing in a letter he sent in May last year: he leaves when the season is over. At the meeting, the specific economic conditions in which the exit is going to be articulated were left pending. It even took months to close the way in which Mbappé will somehow compensate PSG, despite the fact that his contract expires on June 30. When they close that aspect, they will make a joint communication.
I think Mbappé has given Paris Saint Germain a good career for several years. And it's time for him to make his fame and grow up as a professional soccer player in a team more than his level. Real Madrid and Paris Saint Germain are very well-cataloged teams, however Real Madrid statistically speaking, has more goals, goals per minute, shots on goal, and successful passes.
THROUGH YOUR GAZE, NEW MOVIE!
The love of Raquel and Ares in the literary trilogy of the Venezuelan author Adriana Godoy captured thousands of readers and has also repeated its success on the screen with the adaptations starring Clara Galle and Julio Peña. After its first two installments, the third film entitled Through Your Look reends the audience with the couple who has faced several tests of their relationship. These are facts you should know about the romance film that will be released on February 23, 2024.
I think it will be a good movie, since the first 2 movies were quite good and with an excellent plot. I believe that many people with a long-distance relationship will feel very identified with the movie. Since such a love is difficult to carry.
THE KEY SPRING/SUMMER 2024 TRENDS TO KNOW NOW.
The most talked-about collection at the spring/summer 2024 fashion shows was the one that wasn’t there. Phoebe Philo, yet to unveil the first fruits of her eponymous line, which had been originally slated to debut online in September some six years after she departed Céline, dominated the fashion news cycle throughout the month. As the spring/summer 2024 fashion trends piled up, designers waited nervously to see if their collections would be eclipsed by a spontaneous digital drop from a woman many revere as fashion’s messiah.
Statement gowns are out and discreet chic – buoyed up with wardrobe staples including trench coats, pencil skirts, trouser suits and good jeans – is in. At the fashion search engine Tagwalk, which scanned more than 11,000 images from the spring/summer 2024 shows in New York, London, Milan and Paris, looks that were tagged “minimalism” were up 46 per cent on the previous spring/summer 2023 season. Logo-tagged looks, meanwhile, were down 52 per cent, while ’90s-tagged looks were up 42 per cent – the latter was also the most searched tag. With the 25th anniversary of the untimely death of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy coming up next year, meanwhile, the Succession-fuelled “quiet luxury” trend is segueing into something that more closely resembles the understated ’90s-New-York elegance of the former Calvin Klein publicist.
In my opinion, this new fashion that is approaching is perfect, I think all women will look beautiful, highlighting their beautiful body. Creating more new styles with the passage of time and looking incredible.
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The Free Black Women's Library meets over Zoom on Sundays at 5pm Eastern time to discuss short stories, essays, prose, poetry and books written by Black women and Black nonbinary writers.
We are dedicating the month of October to one of our favorite literary giants Octavia E. Butler. We are meeting with Lynelle George, the writer of Octavia's beautiful autobiography, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky on October 23rd!!
To prep for our conversation we are going to meet up on October 9th to discuss what we love about her work, the many worlds she gave birth to, her infleunces , and legacy.
We will also talk about two of her award winning short stories.
Speech Sounds
The Book Of Martha
We meet over Zoom at 5pm Eastern time on Sundays and all are welcome.
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How to Get Somewhat Better at Art
A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to get (somewhat) better at art. My guest is Nicholson Baker, author of Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art, available from Penguin Press.
Nicholson Baker has written seventeen books, including The Mezzanine, Vox, Human Smoke, The Anthologist, and Baseless--also an art book, The World on Sunday, in collaboration with his wife, Margaret Brentano. Several of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, and he has won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Hermann Hesse Prize. Baker has two grown children; he and his wife live on the Penobscot River in Maine.
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Prophet Song a novel by Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize.
Paul Lynch, author of Prophet Song
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Booker Prize winner Prophet Song is a prophetic masterpiece
Paul Lynch’s novel is a terrifying story about the ascent of modern-day fascism.
Book review by Ron Charles
The Washington Post - November 27, 2023
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Paul Lynch, the author of Prophet Song, won the Booker Prize on Sunday.
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Paul Lynch Wins Booker Prize for Prophet Song
Prophet Song imagines a near-future Ireland descending into totalitarianism, then a civil war that leads to families’ fleeing the country.
Esi Edugyan, the chair of this year’s Booker Prize judging panel, said that Prophet Song resonated with contemporary crises including the Israel-Hamas war, but that the novel had won solely on its literary merits. “This is a triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave,” Edugyan said in a news conference. While the judges were not unanimous in their decision, Edugyan said Prophet Song was a worthy winner that “captures the social and political anxieties of our current moment.”
Book review by Alex Marshall
The New York Times - November 26, 2023
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The author Paul Lynch, who won the 2023 Booker Prize for his novel Prophet Song.
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Life Descends Into Chaos in This Year's Booker Prize Winner
Prophet Song, a novel by Paul Lynch, is set in Dublin during a political crisis.
Prophet Song promises some degree of timeliness, and comes at a moment when the fear it addresses is daily in the news: that the social contract is about to break, that what we think of as ordinary life is about to be transformed into a constant existential struggle, which will be played out not in a state of nature but in something arguably worse, at the fault line between opposing ideologies.
Book review by Benjamin Markovits
The New York Times - December 1, 2023
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Writer Paul Lynch evokes dark visions of a fascist dystopia, in his novel Prophet Song.
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Prophet Song by Paul Lynch review – Ireland under fascism
This Booker Prize-winning dystopia with shades of Cormac McCarthy is nightmarish yet horribly convincing.
The Irish offspring of The Handmaid’s Tale and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Paul Lynch’s novel Prophet Song is as nightmarish a story as you’ll come across: powerful, claustrophobic and horribly real. From its opening pages it exerts a grim kind of grip; even when approached cautiously and read in short bursts it somehow lingers, its world leaking out from its pages like black ink into clear water.
Book review by Melissa Harrison
The Guardian - 31 August 2023
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Paul Lynch’s novel Prophet Song, set in an imagined Dublin descending into far-right tyranny, wins the 2023 Booker Prize.
‘Soul-shattering’ Prophet Song by Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker prize
Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel Prophet Song, set in an imagined Ireland that is descending into tyranny. It was described as a “soul-shattering and true” novel that “captures the social and political anxieties of our current moment” by the judging chair, Esi Edugyan.
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The Guardian - 27 November 2023
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'I'm a state-of-the-soul writer' … Paul Lynch.
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Paul Lynch’s timely Booker winner is a novel written to jolt the reader awake
Prophet Song imagines an Ireland under fascist control, breaking through the it-couldn’t-happen-here complacency of western societies.
With Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, the judges have chosen perhaps the most timely and urgent book on the shortlist – a novel explicitly plugged into global strife and political tectonic forces. But it’s also the very intimate, elemental story of one woman’s love for her family, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the immediate world around her in the face of rising chaos.
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The Guardian - 27 November 2023
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Writer, Paul Lynch: 'I'm sort of finding out again who I am now.'
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‘This is a wake-up call’: Booker winner Paul Lynch on his novel about a fascist Ireland
The writer of Prophet Song, Paul Lynch, was on the operating table for cancer, then exactly a year later he found out his nightmarish vision had made the shortlist. He reveals why the words for Prophet Song came out with such urgency, there was no time for paragraph breaks.
‘The universal trickster has been at work on my life in all sorts of wild ways,” Irish novelist Paul Lynch tells me the morning after he was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Prophet Song, which imagines Ireland taken over by a fascist regime. It has been a dramatic few years since he started writing the novel in 2018: his son had just been born; he had long Covid, which made writing an impossibility some days; he has had cancer and separated from his wife. And now he has landed the biggest prize in contemporary fiction. “There’s a general sense of unreality,” he says of winning. “I’ve stepped into my own ‘Sliding Doors’ counterfactual narrative.”
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The Guardian - 28 November 2023
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Study in the UK’s Top Aston University!
Overview
Award-winning instruction, top-notch facilities, and a top-notch learning environment are all provided by Aston University under one roof. The campus of Aston University is a global village located in one of the most varied and multicultural areas of the UK, Birmingham.
Various international league tables constantly place Aston University quite highly. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, 79% of Aston University's research received the "world-leading" or "internationally good" rating. The top 200 institutions worldwide (2018 QS Graduate Employability Rankings), the top 200 in Europe (Times Higher Education European University Rankings 2018), the top 100 greatest "Golden Age" universities worldwide, and the top 200 in the world are some more highlights.
Business, Engineering in UK, and Applied Sciences, Languages, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences are among the faculties at Aston University that provide foundational, undergraduate, postgraduate, teaching, and research programs. The university also has a medical school. More than 11,000 undergraduates and 2,000 postgraduates from more than 120 countries are enrolled at Aston University.
History
One of the top universities in the UK for public research is Aston University. The 1966-founded university's campus is located in the heart of Birmingham on a lush, 60-acre, self-contained location. An important center for research and teaching is the University of Aston. With a top-notch campus infrastructure, Aston University provides the greatest learning environment. There are advanced knowledge-supporting facilities such conference rooms, studios, libraries, and IT centers. World-class research initiatives are also conducted at this university.
Seventy-eight percent of the university's research was rated as "world-leading" in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). To carry out the greatest caliber of research, Aston has set up cutting-edge research centers. The university has joined forces with other universities and research institutions all around the world for information sharing and collaborative research projects. Aston Business School is consistently ranked well by the Financial Times and the Economist global rankings and is among the top 1% of business schools in the world to possess the "triple crown" certification from the most prestigious international accreditations (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS).
Birmingham, which has a population of about 1.2 million, is a lively and diverse region. It currently houses the most theaters outside of London and has a thriving literary, musical, and film scene. Birmingham also features a vibrant nightlife and a number of festivals, including the largest St. Patrick's Day procession outside of Dublin and the largest indoor Christmas Market in the UK.
Ranking and Successes
401–500 according to the 2023 THE World University Rankings
561–570 in the 2023 QS World University Rankings
2023 Times University Guide: 45th
2023 Guardian University Guide: 22nd place
The Times/Sunday Times University Guide 2018 gives students an employability rating of 82%.
(National Student Survey, 2019) 90% of international students are satisfied.
Infrastructure & Services
An international orientation program is offered at the start of each year to help new international students with information and resources. At specific times at the beginning of each academic year, students are welcomed at Birmingham Airport by student volunteers known as "Aston Aunties," who assist them in adjusting to the new environment and interactions that are waiting for them.
Academic guidance and support are offered via the Learning Development Center (LDC). LDC provides private tutoring services in the form of one-on-one and group tutorials.
Detail of the Fee Schedule
Range of international fees: £13,900-19,950
University of Aston Scholarships
Aston University is dedicated to assisting the most inventive and motivated students by providing a range of scholarships to help lower tuition and living expenses and enable them to reach their full potential. For both EU and non-EU students, Aston University offers a variety of scholarships at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Campus Life
With social and event spaces including the lounge, coffee shop, and eateries, a brand-new Students' Union facility was created in 2019. Aston University SU provides a variety of services to aid, serve, and counsel students. At Aston University, there are various student organizations that put on sporting events, concerts, dance competitions, festivals celebrating literature, art exhibits, and other occasions.
Cross-disciplinary engagement is a feature of each of these exercises, which benefits students' development of a sense of community. Pubs, music venues, and restaurants can all be found in Birmingham, which also has one of the world's busiest nightlife. One of the most dynamic cities in the UK, it is the site of a world-class sporting and performing arts scene, as well as an unmatched cultural heritage.
Accommodation
Students in their first year of study are guaranteed housing on campus by Aston University, if they reserve housing before the website's deadline.
The major university buildings and Birmingham city center are both within a five-minute walk of the 3,000 en-suite suites that make up Aston University's campus in the city's center. Laundry facilities, satellite television lounges, a 24-hour library, and a variety of cafes, bars, and restaurants are all available on campus.
Transport
Buses, trams, and trains are just a few of the local transportation options available. Coach service from Birmingham to several UK places is good. Eight miles from the city center, Birmingham International Airport serves both domestic and international destinations.
Location
The Aston University campus is situated on a lovely 60-acre plot of land in the center of Birmingham, just 10 minutes from the city's most popular commercial, industrial, and entertainment districts.
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Novelist David Mitchell on What he Does and How he Does it
I was in Ireland recently to interview two of the best novelists on the face of the planet. John Banville, in Dublin, and David Mitchell, in Cork. As a cost-cutting measure I decided to ask them both the same questions:
What do you do?
How do you do it?
Why do you do it? And:
Why does it matter?
I got diametrically opposed answers.
So much for my cherished ambition of capturing definitive, unified explanations of what the best novelists (in this case) do, and how they do it at the dawn of the 21st century.
David Mitchell is compelled to make narrative. Better and better narrative. He are his novels, in order:
Ghostwritten (1999)
Number9Dream (2001)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
Black Swan Green (2006)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010)
The Bone Clocks (2014)
Slade House (2015)
Utopia Avenue (2020)
Ghostwritten takes place all over the world - ‘from Okinawa to Mongolia to New York City’ and is told in interconnecting stories by nine different narrators. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. number9dream and Cloud Atlas were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003 David was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.’ In 2007 Time magazine included him among their 100 Most Influential People in The World. In 2018 he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work.
In other words, David is a best practitioner.
He lives about an hour's drive from Cork. We met downtown for a taste of the city and a bite to eat. The better part of our afternoon was spent chatting about love and literature, and searching for a quiet place where we could clock our Biblio File best-practitioner conversation. Lovely, colourful city Cork. Tad noisy. We don’t talk much about specific books but we do attempt an "understanding" of the novel writing process in light of how David has gone about creating his wonderful Balzacian oeuvre.
Stay tuned for the Biblio File Back-story.
Check out this episode!
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12 Must-Read Books For Your Bookshelf (Christmas Gift List)
Introduction
If you are looking forward to add amazing and top-notch books, for example, the best historical fiction books, to your bookshelf or are willing to gift a books list to someone on the auspicious occasion of Christmas, no book selling website other than the 'monsterbookshop.co.uk', which is growing at an unbeatable rate in the UK market, can provide the cheap books online at affordable prices with the facilities of 'safe delivery' to the customer's desired location at minimal shipping cost and 'replace & refund' policy.
Here's a list of the top 12 Must-Read Cheap Books online including the best historical fiction books, either to add to your bookshelf collections or use in your Christmas Gift List:
1. Written in my own Heart's Blood: One of the best historical fiction books, "Written in my own Heart's Blood", is available in the category of cheap books online on the website 'monsterbookshop.co.uk'. It is the eighth epic volume in the multimillion-copy best-selling Outlander series. This time-traveling-centered best historical fiction book also combines the essences of romance, adventure, and fantasy together to please & entertain the readers.
2. Telegraph Days: The best historical fiction book "Telegraph Days", available in the category of cheap books online, has been written by the very famous author 'Larry McMurtry'. It is basically a literary fiction depicting the story of a courageous, spunky, and attractive woman who puts aside her personal greed and conquest in order to unflap.
3. To the Bright Edge of the World: 'To the Bright Edge of the World' is among one of the best historical fiction books available. Apart from the historical fiction genre, it also depicts some stances of adventure fiction. From the BestSelling author of 'The Snow Child', it is an atmospheric, transporting tale of love, adventure, and survival in the mists of life's perplexity. Its story is so satisfactory and mind-soothing. It has also been awarded as 'A Library Journal Top 10 Book of the Year.'
4. The Burning Chambers: Full of love, mysteries, betrayal, secrets, war, adventure, conspiracies, and divided loyalties, Kate Mosse's "The Burning Chambers" is among one of the best historical fiction books available in the category of cheap books online. Its gripping story is focused on bringing the 16th-century Languedoc simplicity to life.
5. The Angry Tide- A Novel of Cornwall: 'The Angry Tide- A Nobel of Cornwall', one of the best historical fiction books, is filled with the essence of illicit love. It also flares the Synopsis expand and collapse. It is also one of the major TV series from Masterpiece on the platform of PBS. The sweeping series of the Angry Tide revolves around a distinct pleasure and incomparable elements of historical fiction.
6. Village Idiot, The: The best historical fiction book ever "Village Idiot, The" revolves around the effervescent and wild story of the life of an extraordinary artist. This amazing book, available in the category of cheap books online, is Steve Stern's astonishing new novel focussed on the carnages of World War 1.
7. Suffolk Arboretum: Suffolk Arboretum: An Anthology of original East Anglian Stories inspired by Remarkable Trees and Woodland, is among one of the best historical fiction books. It has been divided among the category of cheap books online with a clear glimpse of the beautiful Suffolk landscape around Sutton Hoo.
8. Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets: Six Tudor Queens 4: Among the top and must-read best historical fiction books for your bookshelf, "Six Tudor Queens" is a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Its whole story revolves around the major six queens who struggle to bring Katherine of Argon dazzlingly to life.
9. MacGregor Trilogy: 'MacGregor Trilogy', among one of the best historical fiction books, emphasize on charting the story of Rob Roy MacGregor and his nephew. Also among the cheap books online, it is a contemporary romance series of a beloved family and has been termed as the 'No.1 New York Times Bestselling Author'. It is basically a full-length spun-off filled with contemporary, historical fiction and suspense.
10. Queens' Play: Second in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, "Queens' Play" is among the best historical fiction books. It is basically a spy story and has a very complex plot where a man attempts to infiltrate the queens' lust for gambling in a more fascinating way. Anonymously, it is a Caroline Era tragicomedy.
11. The Lost Army: "The Lost Army" is also one of the best historical fiction books available in the category of cheap books online which focuses on encompassing the collective acts of heroism of the ancient world. It is basically a story of 10,000 Greek soldiers who have been trained for attacking the Persian king by his own brother.
12. City of Girls: Elizabeth Gilbert's "City of Girls" is among the best historical fiction books available in the category of cheap books online. Its story depicts a scandal showcasing a young costume designer who is photographed kissing a showgirl named Celia Ray, & an actor spots them doing so. It is an amazing love story like no other with powerful wisdom related to human desires and connections.
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AutHer Awards 2023 winners announced at a gala event in New Delhi
It was an exciting night at the Taj Palace, New Delhi on Sunday as the audience witnessed a moving celebration of Indian women writers on the occasion of the announcements of the winners of the AutHer Awards 2023. The AutHer Awards, a joint venture between The Times of India and JK Paper, celebrates female authors who have added value and creativity to the literary space. From authors,…
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Sunday Times Literary Awards 2022 longlists announced
Sunday Times Literary Awards 2022 longlists announced
The longlists for the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2022, in partnership with Exclusive Books, were announced on Sunday, June 26, 2022.
The Sunday Times Literary Prize, organised by South African newspaper The Sunday Times, has the categories of fiction and nonfiction. Founded in 1989, it has been won by Siphiwe Ndlovu and Terry Kurgan (2019), Bongani Ngqulunga and Harry Kalmer (2018), Zakes Mda…
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This picture makes me so happy.
That's Canadian novelist Miriam Toews posing on Sunday night with the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, which was awarded to Sarah Polley for the movie Women Talking. For those of you who haven't heard of it, her book is about a Mennonite community grappling with a string of sexual assaults.
I've been an enormous fan of Miriam since around 2005, when I first read A Complicated Kindness — my favourite Canadian novel. It's about a teenage girl named Nomi growing up in a restrictive Mennonite community that has excommunicated both her mother and sister. I especially loved how she depicted the relationship between Nomi and her father, who was actually modelled on her real life Dad.
For a few years I made it my life's mission to read everything Miriam had ever written, including multiple novels and a non-fiction book about her father's suicide called Swing Low: A Life. In university I was assigned to review her book Irma Voth, which was the first time I got the chance to speak to her directly. I took the opportunity to let her know that I was a giant fan, and that she'd inspired me to write my debut story "Sea to Sky", which is also about a father-daughter relationship.
"Wow, Will. You don't know how much it means to hear that. I've been in the hospital recently because my sister has been unwell, and I've been in a really dark place. It's really nice to hear that my work touched you," she said.
A few years later she produced the book All My Puny Sorrows, which is an incredibly raw and barely fictionalized account of her sister's suicide after a lengthy mental health battle. As it turns out, her sister ended up dying in the exact same fashion as their father. I was floored to realize that I'd connected with her while she was going through that traumatic series of events.
When I was at UBC a couple of years later, Miriam came to visit our fiction workshop class. Somebody asked her if she ever had memorable feedback on her work that influenced the outcome of the book. She shared that her ex-husband had given her the idea to give Nomi a friend in A Complicated Kindness, because she was floating from scene to scene as a total loner. She considered it a game-changing edit.
"Maybe I shouldn't have divorced him," she joked, with her signature dry humour.
If you had told me way back in 2005 that Miriam Toews would become one of the only Canadian novelists to have her work recognized by the Academy Awards, I would've had trouble believing you. Seeing this picture makes me feel like that kid who was a huge fan of a band while they were punk and underground, only to have them hit global success.
As it turns out, I haven't actually engaged with Women Talking yet. The subject matter is insanely heavy, and I know how wrenching her prose can be. I'm going to make a point to read it before checking out the movie, which also happens to star one of my favourite actresses from Fargo and Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri—Frances McDormand.
What a beautiful ending to a multi-decade story. She deserves every accolade. Congratulations, Miriam!
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City of Djinns
Looking to explore the rich history and culture of Delhi, India? Look no further than "City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi" by William Dalrymple. This non-fiction book is divided into three parts, each delving into a different aspect of the city. From the history and architecture of Delhi to the darker side of poverty, crime and politics, this book covers it all.
Get a unique and personal perspective on the city as the author weaves in personal anecdotes from his time in Delhi and draws on historical and literary sources. A classic of travel literature and an important work on the history and culture of Delhi, this book won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the 1994 Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year award. Grab your copy now and start your journey through the city of djinns.
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How to Write More Dynamic Scenes
In this episode of "Craftwork," author Peter Turchi teaches a lesson on how to use shifting power dynamics to write more dynamic scenes in fiction.
Turchi is the author of seven books and the co-editor of three anthologies. His books include (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before; A Muse and A Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic; Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer; Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie, in collaboration with the artist; a novel, The Girls Next Door; a collection of stories, Magician; and The Pirate Prince, co-written with Cape Cod treasure hunter Barry Clifford, about Clifford’s discovery of the pirate ship Whydah. His short story “Night, Truck, Two Lights Burning” has been published, with images by Charles Ritchie, in a limited edition artist’s book. He has also co-edited, with Andrea Barrett, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft, The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work and, with Charles Baxter, Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life.
Turchi’s work has appeared in Tin House, Fiction Writers Review, Ploughshares, Story, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and The Colorado Review, among other journals. His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Washington College’s Sophie Kerr Prize, an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, North Carolina’s Sir Walter Raleigh Award, and having a quotation from A Muse and a Maze serve as the answer to the New York Times Magazine Sunday acrostic.
Born in Baltimore, he earned his BA at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and his MFA at the University of Arizona. He has taught at Northwestern University and Appalachian State University, and has been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. For 15 years he directed The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina; at Arizona State University he taught fiction and served as Director of Creative Writing and Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. He currently teaches at the University of Houston, and in Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers. Laura, his wife, is a Clinical Professor in English at Arizona State University, where she is curriculum director for “RaceB4Race: Sustaining, Building, Innovating” at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; she also co-directs the Shakespeare and Social Justice Project at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. Reed, their son, is a musician (www.reedturchi.com).
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The Nobel Prize in Literature is because of be introduced on Thursday. Bookies predict SA's Ivan Vladislavic has a 25-1 likelihood of successful the coveted award.Many, nonetheless, consider Salman Rushdie could win the prize following the assault on the writer earlier this yr.The winner of this yr's Nobel Prize in Literature is because of be introduced on Thursday, 6 October, and bookies are calculating the chances for every potential laureate.Interestingly, South African novelist and brief story author Ivan Vladislavic was given 25-1 odds to win the prize by betting web site NicerOdds in the direction of the top of September. Those odds have since fallen to 30-1 in the event you go by Betsson. A chunk in The New Republic, admittedly a crabby and considerably satirical piece, provides Vladislavic's odds as 40-1.Vladislavic has printed a number of acclaimed works of fiction, starting along with his assortment Missing Persons in 1989. He has printed 5 novels (most not too long ago, in 2019, The Distance), 4 story collections, a monograph on the artist Willem Boshoff, and a non-fiction work about life in Johannesburg, Portrait with Keys. Vladislavic is printed by Umuzi.When Louise Glück received in 2020, her odds of successful had been 25-1 simply forward of the announcement, says LitHub. It additionally notes that the chances of any author successful the prize are skewed by the unknown standards utilized by the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel. The academy appears to cycle by continents, giving every a flip, and it seems prefer it's Asia's flip this yr.Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavic. The Distance by Ivan Vladislavic. Then once more, occasions can redirect the academy's consideration, and the prize usually appears to be awarded to make a political level. Thus many commentators argue that the winner of this yr's prize will probably be Salman Rushdie. The writer of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses was not too long ago stabbed by a Muslim attacker making an attempt to hold out the fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. The ayatollah condemned Rushdie, who's of Indian descent, to demise for blasphemy. He was seen to have mocked Islam in The Satanic Verses. Rushdie was pressured to dwell in hiding, below guard, for greater than a decade. The fatwa can not, apparently, be rescinded, therefore the stabbing by a religious Muslim.If the Swedish Academy's decision-making course of is mysterious, the bookies' technique of calculating the chances of any writer's win are seemingly based mostly on what number of prizes they've received over the course of their profession. Vladislavic has received a number of, together with the Olive Schreiner Prize for Missing Persons, the CNA Literary Award for The Folly, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize for The Restless Supermarket, the Sunday Times Non-Fiction Award and the University of Johannesburg Prize for Portrait with Keys, and the UJ Prize and the M-Net Literary Award for Double Negative. Looking throughout quite a lot of sources making an attempt to foretell this yr's winner, it seems just like the frontrunners, a day or two forward of the announcement, are Michel Houellebecq (7-1, in line with Ladbrokes), Rushdie (8-1), Ngugi wa Thiong'o (11-1), and Haruki Murakami (14-1). Place your bets.
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