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Did you know that there are 11883 editions of Wuthering Heights listed at Goodreads, which Kate at Books are My Favourite and Best. has selected as this month’s starter book for #6Degrees?  I went looking to see if I could find the cover of the edition I read when I was a teenager, and even …

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Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction (open only to US citizens) and winner of the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, A Guardian and a Thief is the second novel of Megha Majumdar, born in Kolkata but resident in the US for 20 …

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I wasn’t going to do a post about the 2026 Women’s Prize Longlist because I assumed it all the booklovers I know would already know about it, but I enjoyed last year’s nominations so much I decided to read as many as I can this year too, and I need to keep track of them. …

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Longlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards, Bryan Walpert’s absorbing new novel Empathy was unlucky not to make the shortlist. I had just finished reading  it and was mulling over the cunning way that the theme plays out when the news came through.  I can’t really comment on the shortlist of four because the only title …

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The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Shortlist has been announced.  This is the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction shortlist. The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey see my review All Her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks (on reserve at the library) How to Paint a Nude by Sam Mahon (not available in my libraries), see Marcus …

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