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The Marriage Portrait - Maggie OFarrell - Book Review

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-10-19 | The Marriage Portrait - Maggie OFarrell - Book Review

The Nobel Prize for literature - Reactions and Thoughts.

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Intermezzo & why everyone Loves/Hates Sally Rooney

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60 Novels COMING SOON!!!!

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Recent Reads - 10 Books You Need to know about!

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-09-22 | I'm reviewing 10 books I read recently:

Black Duck by Bruce Pascoe
Hard Copy by Fien Veldman translated from Dutch by Hester Veldman
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Jaded by Ela Lee
Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia translated from Portuguese by Zoe Perry
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Swift River by Essie Chambers
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros, translated from Welsh by the author
The Daughter of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar
What I would do to you by Georgia Harper

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I hate myself... So I read the Booker longlist!

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And So I Roar by Abi Dare

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-09-04 | This is a Book Review of the Abi Dare novel And So I Roar, which is the sequel to her debut novel The Girl With the Louding Voice

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Straya September 2 - Readathon Announcement

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-08-10 | Straya September 2 is here - a readathon about celebrating books and authors from Straya! That's Aussie land for those of you who are unsure.

VB ads for those wanting the reference - youtu.be/WA1h9h7-_Z4?si=XvOVUY1xYP0V9aOG

Prompts!

1. Read a book by an Australian Author
2. Deadly Books - Read a book written by an Indigenous, Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander.
3. Migrant Books - Read a book about migrants, by a migrant or by the child or family of a migrant.
4. Boats, Sea and Beach - Read a book that relates to one or all of these words.
5. Heat, Fire, Desert - Read a book that relates to one or all of these words.
6. Two or Second - Read a book that relates to one or both of these words.

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This video was filmed and edited on unceded land belonging to the Bunurong people. Treaty Now.

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Only Excellent and Terrible Books!

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-08-04 | Books Reviewed:

Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
Choice by Neel Mukherjee
Eartheaters by Dolores Reyes translated from Spanish by Julia Sanchez
Hospital by Sanya Rushdi translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud
No No Boy by John Okada
The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma

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Booker Prize Longlist Reaction 2024

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Booker Prize Longlist LEAKED!

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What is BookTubes ultimate Booker prediction?

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-07-25 | I've aggregated the predictions from BookTubers (or should that be BookerTubers) from this years Booker prize.

BookTubers and their Prediction Videos, check them out if you're not familiar with them:

@NerdyNurseReads - youtube.com/watch?v=dd1NfitSzeY
@benreadsgood - youtube.com/watch?v=IukHnQvxFPc
@BobTheBookerer - youtube.com/watch?v=mmuK7f3AifY
@charlottemolloy - youtube.com/watch?v=UUdte-pYq_c
@EricKarlAnderson - youtube.com/watch?v=0ylAlk_fXY0
@GemofBooks - youtube.com/watch?v=xlz0WjsoVLQ
@GunpowderFictionPlot (that's me) - youtube.com/watch?v=-bhH1PFkGio
@kiranreader - youtube.com/watch?v=QOvUNzDzsAE
@madeubook - youtube.com/watch?v=ODQFSWVYrgs
@Rainierbooks - youtube.com/watch?v=P7FmSO-9v_A
@rororeads - youtube.com/watch?v=SfPtEaX6810
@stalkingkafka - youtube.com/watch?v=LGcjF950Cvw

Booktubers to post prediction videos after I filmed:

@Shellyish - youtube.com/watch?v=and1OiCdUV0
@MercysBookishMusings - youtube.com/watch?v=NsEEs012l74

I will update the Booker dozen with these wonderful videos in a few hours, once I've had a chance to catch up on them.

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The best books of 2024!

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-07-16 | These are my best books of 2024!

121 Books (not including DNFs), 20 5 star reads!

January - 00:13
February - 12:14
March - 17:52
April - 20:23
May - 24:54
June - 29:22

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Weird books that could be Booker longlisted

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Predicting the Booker Prize Longlist!

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-06-28 | Let's geek out over books and book prizes! 13 books I'm predicting for the Booker longlist, honourable mentions at the end.

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Recent Reads - NO MORE DNFS!

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-06-11 | Books Mentioned:

Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
Oh Sister by Jodie Chapman
Becoming Liz Taylor by Elizabeth Delo
Clear by Carys Davies
Tremor by Teju Cole
Hidden Fires by Sairish Hussain
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
The Work by Bri Lee
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan
Hagstone by Sinead Gleeson
A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

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163 Books that are eligible for this years Booker!

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-06-07 | There are a few times I get authors names wrong, I'm sorry. This is not deliberate, I have dyslexia and things can get muddle between my brain and my mouth.

I've run out of characters for all the books, some are missing authors

Books Mentioned:

Question 7
What Will Survive of Us
The Voyage Home
The Women Behind the Door
Fanatic Heart
The Extinction
The Road to the Country
James
Choices
My Friends
Long Island
The Spoiled Heart
There are Rivers in the Sky
Tell Me Everything
Cahokia Jazz
Parade
Crooked Seed
Come and Get it
Playground
Intermezzo
Baumgartner
Blackouts
Praiseworthy
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Let us Descend
Heart, be at Peace
Small Rain
Martyr!
Headshot
Wandering Star
Clear
Whale Fall
Wellness
Passiontide
The Night Alphabet
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
Parasol Against the Axe
Pity by Andrew McMillan
Hard by the Great Forrest
The Burrowed Hills by Scott Preston
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh Ingrid Persaud
Julia
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
The Future
Restless Dolly Maunder
River East River West
A Trace of Sun
Same Bed Different Dreams
The Future Future
Caledonian Road
Orbital
Loot
The Land of Milk and Honey
The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez
The Storm We Made
Mercury by Amy Jo Burns
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Butcher
Interesting Facts About Space and Time
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
The Glutton by AK Blakemore
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
The Road to Belhaven by Margot Livesey
Wild House by Colin Barrett
I cheerfully refuse Leif Enger
Held by Anne Michaels
The Bullet Swallowers by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Private Rites Julia Armfield
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Body Friend by Katherine Bradon
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
Between You and Me by Joanna Horton
The Echos by Evie Wyld
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt
The Great Undoing by Sharlene Allsopp
Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
Followed by the Lark by Helen Humphreys
Fast by the Horns Moses McKenzie
Ghost Mountain Ronan Hession
Absolution by Alice McDermott
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Exile by Aimée Walsh
The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey
Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Cross by Austin Duffy
This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka
This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack
Mouthing by Orla Mackey
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by Keiran Goddard
Habitat by Catriona Shine
Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire
The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Once Upon A Time There Was A Man by Peter Scholes
You Are Here by David Nicholls
Elightenment by Sarah Perry
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
All Grown Up by Catherine Evans
Shaking Hands with Elvis: Check out anytime you like at the Grand Euthanasia Hotel by Paul Carroll
Leaving by Roxana Robinson
Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski
The Limits by Nell Freudenberger
England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee
All Fours by Miranda July
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
Jaded by Ela Lee
Mother Naked by Glen James Brown
The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
The Lodgers by Holly Pester
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Liars by Sarah Manguso
Within Arm's Reach by Ann Napolitano
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
Mongrel by Hanako Footman
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
Monumenta by Lara Haworth
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg
My Beloved Life by Amitava Kumar
The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump
The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas
Curandera by Irenosen Okojie
After Nora by Penelope Curtis
How to Be Somebody Else by Miranda Pountney
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands
Hyper by Agri Ismaïl
I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru
Shanghailanders by Juli Min
The Vulnerable by Sigrid Nunez
Determination by Tawseef Khan
Day by Michael Cunningham
Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira
A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Dominoes by Phoebe Mcintosh
Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks
The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams,
Tremor by Teju Cole,
The Museum of Failures by Thirty Umrigar,

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Recent Reads: This book will win the Pulitzer Prize

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-06-03 | Books Discussed:

Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
You Dream of Empire by Alvaro Enrigue translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
James by Percival Everett
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins
The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman, translated from French by Leslie Camhi
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Fruits of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn
Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan
My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci translated from Finnish by David Hackson

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New Books Still to come in 2024

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Recent Reads - Three 5 star book bangers!

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-05-23 | Books Mentioned:

Schmutz by Felica Berliner
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
Redwood Court by DeLana Dameron
Thanks for having me by Emma Darragh
The Brink by Jamie Fewery
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Reproduction by Louisa Hall
Memory Pieces by Lisa Ko
Sisters of Belfast by Melaine Maure
The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
Feast by Emily O’Grady
An Imagine in a Mirror by Ijangolet Ogwang
Wandering Souls by Tommy Orange
Cry The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad
Las Madres by Esmeralda Santiago

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Miles Franklin 2024 Longlist Reaction & Discussion

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Miles Franklin Longlist Prediction

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How the Women’s Prize Reshaped Literature

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-05-07 | How did the women's prize change literature for women?

Here is a link to the paper mentioned for those of you who are interested - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337753

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This book is 2024s Handmaids Tale!

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A cracker of a new release novel

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-04-26 | Booktubers mentioned - @JoshsBookishVoyage

Books Mentioned

Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
Broughtups by Christina Cooke
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
Lioness by Emily Perkins
My Men by Victoria Kielland translated from Norwegian by Damion Searls
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez

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Shortlist Reaction - Womens Prize for Fiction

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This years Womens Prize Longlist is the BEST EVER

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-04-14 | I have read 16 books on the @WomensPrizeforFiction longlist. I have given every book an honest and detailed review, I hope you like.

While most of the opinions are very positive, there are some negative opinions and I would like to remind you all that these are just books, we can disagree.

Books Reviewed:

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

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15 Snot Inducing Misery Reads for Gemma

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-04-09 | Please check out @GemofBooks and her video on the same topic.

Please note that I get muddled in this video and say Pakistan when I mean to say Palestine. I apologise for this complete accident. To be extra confusing I also say Pakistan at other points in this video when I mean to say Pakistan, but hopefully you'll figure things out by the context.

Book's Mentioned:

10 minutes and 38 seconds in this strange world by Elif Shafak
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Misery
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
Echolalia by Briohny Doyle
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Germinal by Emile Zola
Hello Friend We Missed You by Richard Owain Roberts
I Remember Abu by Humayun Azad
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Our Bodies Their Battlefields – War through the lives of Women by Christina Lamb
When I hit you: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
Woman At Point Zero by Nawel El Saadawi

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Misery May Readathon Announcement Video

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-04-02 | Want to read miserable books this May? Join me and @GemofBooks and tell us reading horrible, miserable and sad books is a normal hobby.

Books Mentioned in the order they appear in the video:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Watership Downs Richard Adams
The Life of Pi Yann Martel
The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan
Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Mosfegh
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Echolalia by Briohny Doyle
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
The Performance by Claire Thomas
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan
Pyre by Perumal Murugan
One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan
Les Miserables
Germinal by Zola
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Human Acts by Han Kang
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Night by Elie Wiesel
Fredrick Backman
Minor Details by Adania Shibli
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Bolla by Pajtim Statovic
Magma by Thora Hjorlesifdottir
I want to die but I want to get Tteokpokki
I Remember Abbu by Humayun Azad
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
Black Butterflies by Priscila Morris
I Remember Abbu by Humayun Azad
A Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Diary of Anne Frank
Night by Elie Wiesel
How We Disappear by Jing Jing Lee
Maus by Art Spiegelman
First They Killed by Father Loung Ung
The Mountains Sing Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
As Long As The Lemon Tree Grows Zoulfa Katouh
The Girl Who Smiled Beads Clemantine Wamariya
The Last Girl Nadia Murad
Our Bodies Their Battlefields War through the Lives of Women Christina Lamb
Brotherless Night V. V. Ganeshananthan
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
River Spirit by Leila Aboulela
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Bech
War and Peace
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Behold the Dreamer by Imbolo Mbue
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
The Kite Runner
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Amnesty by Aravinda Adiga
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Kim JiYoung Born 1982 by Cho Nam Joo
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Valley of the Dolls by Jacquline Susan
Hello Mum by Bernadine Evaristo
No One Is Talking About This by Patrica Lockwood
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Putney by Sofka Zinovieff
The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
10 minutes and 38 seconds in this world by Elif Shafak
Thomas Hardy
George Gissing New Grubb Street
Tolstoy
the Brontes
Plath
Kafka
Steinbeck
Upton Sinclair
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Misery
Germinal by Emile Zola
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
If Beale Streets Could Talkby James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Shakespeare’s tragedies
Les Mis
The hunch back of Norte Damn
A Tale of Two Cities
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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The Carol Shields Prize Longlist

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The Best Book I will read in 2024! - Recent Reads

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-03-21 | I read a bunch of books, let's review them.

Books Read:

Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Come and get it by Kiley Reid
Close to Home by Michael Magee
Family Meal Bryan Washington
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Cespedes translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein
Hard by the Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili
The House of Plain Truth by Donna Hemans
How to kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina
I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman translated from French by Ros Schwartz
Quinn by Em Strang
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
Sugar Baby by Celine Saintclare
Things We didn’t know by Elba Iris Perez

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The Jhalak Prize Longlist: Discussion & Reaction

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The Stella Prize Longlist: Discussion and Reaction

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Womens Prize Longlist Reaction and Discussion

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Predicting the Booker International Longlist

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Reading 30 Booktubers favourite books

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-02-28 | There are 30 booktubers and 30 books in this video, each book was included in a best books of 2023 style video from one of the booktubers.

Booktubers mentioned - please show them some love:

@GemofBooks
@BandysBooks
@charlottemolloy
@JentheLibrarianreads
@savagereads
@madeubook
@SaraMGreads
@shawnbreathesbooks
@Shellyish
@lindysmagpiereads
@katsfieldnotes
@OliviasCatastrophe
@eyesonindie
@PageTurnersWithKatja
@katiejlumsden
@marcellaandherbooks8733
@stalkingkafka
@KierTheScrivener
@nthabiandherbooks
@myreadinglife8816
@benreadsgood
@EricKarlAnderson
@NerdyNurseReads
@ReadheadReads
@CharlieBrookReads
@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf
@BookishTexan
@MercysBookishMusings
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
@CestKevvie

Book's Reviewed:

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Haniff
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot
As Long as the lemon tree grows by Zoulfa Katouh
Blackouts by Justin Torres
Blood Red by Gabriela Ponce, translated from Spanish by Sarah Booker
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin, translated from Korean by Jamie Chan
Co-Wives, Co-Widows by Adrienne Yabouza translated from French by Rachel McGill
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruze
Idol, Burning by Rin Usami, translated by Asa Yoneda
Lie With Me by Phillipe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
Minor Details by Adania Shibli, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein
Nives by Sacha Naspini translated from Italian by Clarissa Botsford
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich
We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb

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Women Prize Wild Speculations - 16 Awesome Books

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-02-19 | Predicting the women's prize for fiction longlist 2024.

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Predicting the Womens Prize For Fiction Longlist

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-02-16 | In this video I picked the 16 books I've read which I think are most likely to make the Women's Prize Longlist.

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18 Book WRAP UP! Recent Reads

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-02-12 | A Bunch of Book Reviews:

A Woman is no Man by Etaf Rum
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
Brainwryms by Alison Rumfitt
Chlorine by Jade Song
Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell
I am I am I am by Maggie O’Farrell
Julia by Sandra Newman
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
Mercy Street by Jennifer Haige
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Pity by Andrew McMillian
Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
Three Daughter of Eve by Elif Shafak
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Newman
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

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20 Books from Small Presses

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-02-07 | There are 2 Republic of Consciousness Prizes, a UK/Ireland version and a US/Canada version. There are 10 books on each longlist, let's discuss them.

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32 New Books YOU NEED to know about!

Gunpowder, Fiction & Plot 2024-02-05 | In this video I mention 32 soon to be new release books.

I also mention another video I made recently where I talk about 76 new releases, here's the link - youtu.be/VwfIltc35aw

Books Mentioned:

The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain – Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kauzo Ishiguro, illustrations by Bianca Bagnarelli
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel
And So I Roar by Abi Dare
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey
Black Duck by Bruce Pascoe
Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers
Dirrayawadha: Rise Up by Anita Heiss
Diana Reid - TBC
The Boat – 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
Towards Eternity by Anton Hur
Honeyeater by Jessica Tu
Fast By The Horns by Moses McKenzie
Scandalous Women – A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jaqueline Susan by Gil Paul
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Blessing by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Fragile Animal by Genevieve Jagger
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
Anyone’s Ghost by August Thompson - apologise I called this Anyone's Guest in the video, it is an error, Anyone's Ghost is the actual title.
A Thousand Times before by Asha Thanki
If you go by Alice Robinson
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
Butter by Asako Yuzuki translated by Polly Barton
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
There’s going to be Trouble by Jen Silverman
Hagstone by Sinead Gleeson
The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kolawole
Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Girl

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