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We’re here to help you find that book that you can’t put down, the book you’ll push on all your friends, the book that’ll change your life.

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The Booker Prize 2026 Longlist ✨ Which of these t The Booker Prize 2026 Longlist ✨ Which of these titles will make the shortlist, to be announced on Tuesday 22nd September? Share your own favourites and see link in bio for our reviews of: The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis The Renovation by Kenan Orhan The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley 📷 @thebookerprizes #bookerlonglist #bookerprize2026 #bookrecs #bookswelove #chloearidjis #gwendolineriley #kenanorhan #whattoread
‘You think it will never happen to you, that it ca ‘You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.’ - Paul Auster, Winter Journal | #thoughtfortoday 📷 Arnold Newman, NYC, 1993 #americanwriter #literarylife #paulauster #paulausterquotes #qotd #writersquotes
Dilara is a Turkish exile, living in Italy with he Dilara is a Turkish exile, living in Italy with her husband and her ailing father, a blacklisted political academic who is gradually succumbing to dementia. Having fled President Erdogan’s oppressive regime, the three of them have led a comfortably uneventful life for some years. When Dilara hires some builders for a renovation, she is astonished to discover that in place of the expected swish new bathroom, they have installed a Turkish prison cell, a sesame-scented portal to their much missed homeland. A wonderful exploration of memory, captivity and exile, The Renovation by Kenan Orhan is yet another gem on this year’s excellent Booker Prize Longlist. See link in bio for our review. | 🎥 @thebookerprizes | #Bookstoker #bookerlonglist #bookerprize2026 #bookrecs #bookswelove #kenanorhan #therenovation #whattoreadnext
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