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Barry Unsworth: Sacred Hunger

September 22, 2017July 3, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Barry Unsworth’s Booker Prize winning Sacred Hunger.

Categories Barry Unsworth, Book Reviews Tags 1990s, 1992, 1992 Book Prize, Booker Prize, Booker Prize Winner 7 Comments

Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace

September 22, 2017July 3, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Margaret Atwood’s Giller Prize winning and Booker Prize shortlisted Alias Grace, a novel based on a real murder in the 1850s.

Categories Book Reviews, Margaret Atwood Tags 1990s, 1996, 1996 Booker Prize, 1996 Giller Prize, Booker Prize, Giller Prize, Giller Prize Winner 2 Comments

Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea

September 22, 2017July 2, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Iris Murdoch’s Booker Prize winning 1978 novel, The Sea, the Sea.

Categories Book Reviews, Iris Murdoch Tags 1970s, 1978, 1978 Booker Prize, Booker Prize, Booker Prize Winner 3 Comments

Imre Kertész: Liquidation

September 22, 2017July 1, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész’s 2003 novel, Liquidation, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson.

Categories Book Reviews, Imre Kertész Tags 2000s, 2003, Hungarian, Nobel Prize Leave a comment

Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children

May 16, 2018July 1, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece, Midnight’s Children, as part of 2008’s Best of the Booker shortlist.

Categories Book Reviews, Salman Rushdie Tags 1980s, 1981, 1981 Booker Prize, Booker Prize, Booker Prize Winner 2 Comments
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