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2009 Booker Prize

William Trevor: Love and Summer

July 22, 2016 by Lee Monks

Lee reviews William Trevor’s 2009 novel, Love and Summer, which “can’t, of course, end well,” but that is “brilliant, devastating, and masterfully wrought.”

Categories Book Reviews, William Trevor Tags 2000s, 2009, 2009 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 4 Comments

J.M. Coetzee: Summertime

June 29, 2016April 26, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, J.M. Coetzee Tags 2000s, 2009, 2009 Booker Prize, Booker Prize, Nobel Prize 13 Comments

Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger

June 17, 2016August 17, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Sarah Waters Tags 2000s, 2009, 2009 Booker Prize 12 Comments

Colm Tóibín: Brooklyn

May 25, 2018August 6, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, recently longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Categories Book Reviews, Colm Tóibín Tags 2000s, 2009, 2009 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 13 Comments
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