“An amiable distraction” – Freezing Point by Anders Bodelsen
“Who wouldn’t want to spend time here?” – Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
“There is always hope” – Vigil by George Saunders
“Does it all have to be so neat?” – The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce
“It does what a good book should” – Departures by Julian Barnes
“Singular literature” – Facing the Bridge by Yoko Tawada
“Something of a product of its time” – Valdez is Coming by Elmore Leonard
“We wholeheartedly recommend the experience” – Hombre & 3.10 to Yuma by Elmore Leonard
“A bit of something different” – Last Stand at Saber River by Elmore Leonard
“Never overdone” – One Sun Only by Camille Bordas
“Forges new mythologies” – Necrosmologies by Anthony Cartwright
“A bold enough debut” – The Crystal Vase by Astrid Goldsmith
“A good introduction” – Saint Petersburg by Sinclair McKay
“A worthwhile read” – The Wardrobe Department by Elaine Garvey
“What you observe depends on where you’re sitting” – Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips
“A thought-provoking novel” – Blank Canvas by Grace Murray
‘Nobel Prize winning carrots’ – The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
“An enormous act of defiance” – Oromay by Baalu Girma (trans. by David DeGusta / Mesfin Felleke Yirgu)
“Thumb’s up from us” – The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits #bookerlonglist2025
“Something of a delight” – The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
“The proverbial doozy” – King Sorrow by Joe Hill
“A slow burning historical epic” – Flashlight by Susan Choi #bookerprize2025
“Closure isn’t here” – Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle
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