Book Cougars | A chat with Louise Savidge Muses about the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction & More! @BookCougars | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 23 minutes ago.
We had a lovely time chatting with Louise Savidge (@louisesavidgemuses4135) about her experience reading the @WomensPrizeforFiction long list for nonfiction: womensprize.com/prizes/womens-prize-for-non-fiction

Watch Louise and her son Simon Savidge (@SavidgeReads) unbox the non-fiction books:
youtube.com/watch?v=UT14ejeK5gc&t=1108s

Three books from the #WomensPrize longlist that did not make the short list:
MATRESENCE by Lucy Jones: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780593317310
YOUNG QUEENS: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780374294489
WIFEDOM: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780593320686

Louise talks about the longlist and predictions for the shortlist:
Part One: youtube.com/watch?v=qpCRRVDdqMk
Part Two: youtube.com/watch?v=Huu-dinle8c
Part Three: youtube.com/watch?v=7ObZ_gxEmEA&t=137s
Part Four: youtube.com/watch?v=kXxm9tNcAhw
Short List Musings: youtube.com/watch?v=W4MeaIOBrVY

Louise and Simon make predictions about the winners:
youtube.com/watch?v=xnrTI7KGjxo&t=1920s
youtube.com/watch?v=iGr0BC5PY4A

Watch the awards ceremony: womensprize.com/prizes/womens-prize-for-fiction

ALSO MENTIONED:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780060837020
DOPPELGANGER: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780374610326
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780385311298
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780593315088
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781639730759
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780062077325
Animal Farm by George Orwell: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780451526342
1984 by George Orwell: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780451524935
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780802163011
An Almost Impossible Thing The Radical Lives of Britain's Pioneering Women Gardeners by
Fiona Davison: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/An-Almost-Impossible-Thing-by-Fiona-Davison/9781915068378
Someplace Generous: An Inclusive Romance Anthology edited by Elaina Ellis & Amber Flame: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781955905626


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