Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 54 minutes ago
I've been a total Women's Prize fanboy this year, and managed to read a bunch of the titles on the longlist (though not all of them!)
Here are my reviews of the books I've read, plus my guess at the shortlist.
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00:00 Intro and stats
01:18 Ones I didn't read (and why)
02:41 I'm A Fan
05:04 Children of Paradise
06:38 Cursed Bread
09:07 Wandering Souls
10:47 Fire Rush
13:01 Trespasses
15:01 The Marriage Portrait
18:26 Homesick
20:57 Black Butterflies
22:44 Glory
26:13 The Bandit Queens
28:12 Overall thoughts and predictions
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#booktube #womensprize #reading
I've been a total Women's Prize fanboy this year, and managed to read a bunch of the titles on the longlist (though not all of them!)
Here are my reviews of the books I've read, plus my guess at the shortlist.
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If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up, and you can subscribe to my channel to see more of my content.
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00:00 Intro and stats
01:18 Ones I didn't read (and why)
02:41 I'm A Fan
05:04 Children of Paradise
06:38 Cursed Bread
09:07 Wandering Souls
10:47 Fire Rush
13:01 Trespasses
15:01 The Marriage Portrait
18:26 Homesick
20:57 Black Butterflies
22:44 Glory
26:13 The Bandit Queens
28:12 Overall thoughts and predictions
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#booktube #womensprize #reading
![Booker Prize book reviews • Audition, Endling, Flashlight, One Boat
My final wrap-up from the 2025 Booker Prize longlist. A few here Id highly recommend, and a few less so... 👀
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00:00 One Boat
04:34 Audition
08:11 Endling
13:00 Flashlight
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Books mentioned:
📖 One Boat, by Jonathan Buckley
📖 Audition, by Katie Kitamura
📖 Endling, by Maria Reva
📖 Flashlight, by Susan Choi
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![Reviewing the Booker Prize 2023 (spoiler-free) | Part 4
My final reading wrap up from the Booker Prize longlist. Three book reviews in this one, including one title that made the shortlist.
You dont need to have watched the parts in order before watching this, but Ive linked them below if you havent seen them yet.
Part 1: https://youtu.be/nx2caL3ekGM
Part 2: https://youtu.be/AW5O3gq61g0
Part 3: https://youtu.be/zfUGToe0FVE
Part 4: This video
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Books mentioned
📖 How to Build a Boat, by Elaine Feeney
📖 A Spell of Good Things, by Ayòbámi Adébáyò
📖 This Other Eden, by Paul Harding
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00:00 Intro
00:56 How to Build a Boat
05:31 A Spell of Good Things
09:42 This Other Eden
13:58 Final thoughts
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![My Booker Prize 2025 wishlist (kind of)
Lots of folks asked in the comments for my wishlist for this years Booker Prize, so here it is! Well, its somewhere between a wishlist of specific books, and a wishlist for some themes and representation. In any case, here are 13 more books Id be very happy to see on the list.
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Books mentioned:
Youll have to watch and see 😉
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Other videos:
🎥 Booker predictions https://youtu.be/GdOeKnBOpYA?si=W5qYYdQ-ltV8rHaT
🎥 Vlog featuring A Room Above a Shop review https://youtu.be/nGfF2xi4jwU?si=OLPu6PXUfOGrx_oc
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Channels mentioned:
@EricKarlAnderson
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00:00 Intro
01:03 Books I loved
04:35 Books that deserve discussion
11:40 Small presses
15:06 Scottish fiction
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🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA
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![Booker Prize book reviews • The Rest of Our Lives, Love Forms, The South, Universality
Hey everyone - here is my first reading wrap-up from this years Booker Prize longlist. Let me know what you think of these books, and which ones youre most excited for!
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00:00 The Rest of Our Lives
06:03 Love Forms
10:36 The South
14:41 Universality
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Books mentioned:
📖 The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits
📖 Love Forms, by Claire Adams
📖 The South, by Tash Aw
📖 Universality, by Natasha Brown
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![Reacting to the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist
Weve got ourselves a longlist for the International Booker Prize 2025! And it seems like a corker. Join me while I wait for a video thats never coming, and then watch the reveal 😅
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Books mentioned:
📖 A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre (tr. by Mark Hutchinson)
📖 On a Woman’s Madness by Astrid Roemer (tr. Lucy Scott)
📖 Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi)
📖 Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (tr. Sophie Hughes)
📖 Eurotrash by Christian Kracht (tr. Daniel Bowles)
📖 Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Japanese by Asa Yoneda)
📖 Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (tr. Polly Barton)
📖 Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (tr. by Helen Stevenson)
📖 Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda (tr. Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary)
📖 Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu (tr. Sean Cotter)
📖 There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem (tr. Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Lubert)
📖 On the Calculation of Volume I, by Solvej Balle (tr. Barbara J Haveland)
📖 The Book of Disappearance, by Ibtisam Azem (tr. by Sinan Antoon)
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![The best books I read in 2023 (and you should read them too)
Well this has come around fast, hasnt it? Here are my favourite books of 2023 (that I read, not that were released).
Last year I only did a top 5, but I read so many great books in 2023 that this time around Ive gone for a top 10. And even that was tough to narrow down, so you get 5 honourable mentions at the end as well.
Hopefully you find some recommendations worth reading in here. Let me know if youve read any, and what your favourite reads of the year have been!
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Standalone reviews of some of these books:
https://youtu.be/pYNHKHVIZl0
https://youtu.be/fYdgk0Q2CGg
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00:00 Reflections on my reading year
02:10 Rank 10-5
08:17 Rank 5-1
15:10 Honourable mentions
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![A big indie press book haul
I was very lucky to go along to the inaugural Indie Showcase with @BobTheBookerer recently. Here are all the books I came away with!
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Books mentioned:
📖 I Died at Fallow Hall, by Bonnie Burke-Patel
📖 American Spirits, by Russell Banks
📖 Above Us the Sea, by Ania Cain
📖 The Boy with the Black Rooster, by Stefanie vor Schulte (translated by Alexandra Roesch)
📖 My Favourite, by Sarah Jollien-Fardel (translated by Holly James)
📖 The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things, by Suzanne Joinson
📖 A Person is a Prayer, by Ammar Kalia
📖 Grimmish, by Michael Winkler
📖 The Body in the Library, by Graham Caveney
📖 Sunburn, by Chloe Michelle Howarth
📖 Blue Hour, by Tiffany Clarke Harrison
📖 Placeholders, by James Roseman
📖 Isaac, by Curtis Gardner
📖 The Way the Day Breaks, by David Roberts
📖 Amma, by Saraid de Silva
📖 The Pages of the Sea, by Anne Hawk
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00:00 The event!
02:25 Bedford Square Publishers
04:40 Dead Ink Books
05:55 The Indigo Press
09:00 Oldcastle Books
10:26 Peninsula Press
12:05 Verve Books
16:24 Weatherglass Books
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#books #booktube #bookhaul A big indie press book haul](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4cxSb0rlYHA/mqdefault.jpg)


![Booker Prize book reviews • The Safekeep, Playground, This Strange Eventful History
Heres another batch of Booker reviews - Im having a pretty great time with the list so far! Let me know how youre getting on.
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Books mentioned
📖 The Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden
📖 Playground, by Richard Powers
📖 This Strange Eventful History, by Claire Messud
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00:00 The Safekeep
03:42 Playground
08:08 This Strange Eventful History
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