Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 33 minutes ago

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It's here, and my reaction is basically summed up by the Kombucha meme. Initial disappointment, but I've come around!

HUGE apologies that my microphone basically decided to give up 30 seconds into the video.

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Books mentioned:
📖 Soldier Sailor, by Claire Kilroy
📖 Western Lane, by Chetna Maroo
📖 The Wren, The Wren, by Anne Enright
📖 Brotherless Night, by V V Ganeshananthan
📖 The Restless Dolly Maunder, by Kate Grenville
📖 Enter Ghost, by Isaballa Hammad
📖 Ordinary Human Failings, by Megan Nolan
📖 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster, by Mirinae Lee
📖 Hangman, by Maya Binyam
📖 River East, River West, by Aube Rey Lescure
📖 Nightbloom, by Peace Adzo Medie
📖 The Blue, Beautiful World, by Karen Lord
📖 In Defence of the Act, by Effie Black
📖 A Trace of Sun, by Pam Williams
📖 The Maiden, by Kate Foster

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BookTubers mentioned:
@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf

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00:00 Thoughts on the longlist
04:04 Ones I've read
05:49 Ones from previous WP authors
08:33 Ones I've heard of
12:31 Ones new to me
16:14 Final thoughts

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Thank you so much for watching.

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🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA

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