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Booker Prize finalist: Inspired or insipid? Stone Yard Devotional contemplates uncertainty

Charlotte Wood’s slow epistolary novel invites readers to sit with ambiguity, but in doing so, dims its own luminosity

This year’s shortlisted novels for the Booker Prize have been chosen from a 13-strong longlist.
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UK Booker Prize set to name first-time winner

BRITAIN’S Booker Prize for fiction will anoint a first-time winner when the 2023 recipient of the prestigious prize is announced at a ceremony in London on Sunday (Nov 26) night.

Canadian author Sarah Bernstein with her book "Study of Obedience" at the National Portrait Gallery in London in September.
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BOOKS

Study For Obedience: An absurdist account of subjugation and complicity

Sarah Bernstein spins a complex psychological tale of a narrator who is at once dominated, yet suspiciously conscious of her own subjugation

US author Paul Harding's "This Other Eden" is up for the US National Book Award and the Booker Prize, both of which are due this month.
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BOOKS

This Other Eden: A tale of paradise gained – and lost

Paul Harding acquaints us with a tragedy-bound island community that is nevertheless full of warmth, fellowship and dignity

Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) in Succession
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LIFE & CULTURE

What happens when a story loses a main character? 

Death is even more of a spoiler than this column

Books, particularly great works of fiction, transport us to lands far away, times long gone or the minds of characters strange or stimulating.
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LIFE & CULTURE

Why we should all be reading more fiction

If you want a nuanced worldview, reach for that novel

Waterford crystals are installed onto the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration ball on the roof of One Times Square on Dec 27, 2022 in New York City.
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LIFE & CULTURE

New Year’s Eve, as described in fiction, is a grim affair

Novelists over the centuries have taken rather a bleak view of the festivities

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