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Jim Hitch
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Reading every Booker Prize winner (and much besides), one book at a time.
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Waterlog Book Review – Roger Deakin’s sublime liquid masterpiece
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August 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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The SafeKeep Book Review – a strong atmospheric tale of desire and possession - mixed feelings about this. Still, a great book overall.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This book really did change the way I think about my life. Four Thousand Weeks, only that long?
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August 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Uncovering Britain's Temperate Rainforests.
The Lost Rainforests of Britain – an enlightening call to arms. #rewilding
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July 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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My goto digital cure.
Digital Minimalism – digital overload, a powerful critique and cure #digitalminimalism #overload
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July 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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I am LOVING going back through my old reads.
Orfeo – a seamless fusion of music and biochemistry
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July 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Otherlands – an outstanding example of literary science. This book is amazing. My book of 2024 (as in I read it in 2024). So evocative of all the worlds this planet has lived through.
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June 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Holiday, Stanley Middleton – confronting the discomfort of inaction. Joint Booker Prize Winner 1974
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June 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Had to move the whole website! Long story. But after around a week of work, back on track with Troubles.
Troubles - a darkly comic look at English decline and colonial arrogance - Chatterton Books
A haunting, darkly comic look at English decline and colonial arrogance, Troubles by J.G. Farrell - winner of the 1970 Lost Booker Prize - follows a shell-shocked veteran adrift in a crumbling Irish h...
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June 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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We saved you a seat. 💙
June 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I absolutely loved this (but I know those who didn't). Short, dreamlike and yet vast somehow. #bookerprize
Orbital
Samantha Harvey’s 2024 Booker Prize winner Orbital—a compact, contemplative novel set aboard the ISS. Exploring time, space, and human fragility, it blends lyrical prose with meditative pacing. Good f...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Am not doing this in any particular order... here's the 1971 Booker Prize Winner. #bookerprize
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul’s In A Free State, this post explores colonial legacies, cultural disconnection, and the politics of transition. A Booker Prize winner set in post-independence Africa, it's a haunting, un...
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June 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Here's my first book on the journey to read all the Booker Prize winners.
Something to Answer For
P.H. Newby’s Something to Answer For, winner of the first Booker Prize in 1969, is a surreal and atmospheric novel set during the Suez Crisis. With echoes of Camus and Paul Bowles, it explores colonia...
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June 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM