British Book Business
Pride recommendations and award season
Recently announced British book awards:
The International Booker Prize — Winner
‘Kairos’ — Jenny Erpenbeck — “Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction”.
Women’s Prize — Winners
‘Brotherless Night’ — V.V. Ganeshananthan (fiction prize) — “In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as civil war devastates Sri Lanka.”
‘Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World’ — Naomi Klein (nonfiction prize) — “Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein ….was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who.”
The Dylan Thomas Prize — Winner
‘Small Worlds’ — Caleb Azumah Nelson — “An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship”.
The Jhalak Prize — Winner
‘Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World’ — Yepoka Yeebo — “The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious…
