I am pleased to see that books I’ve read and enjoyed have been nominated for the Folio prize longlist, and that I also have some of them on my TBR.
You can see the 80 books listed here, and the ones I’ve reviewed are
- Life Drawing, by Robin Black, see my review
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan, see my review
- The Night Guest, by Fiona McFarlane, see my review
- A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie, see my review
On the TBR are
- Amnesia, by Peter Carey
- The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber, see Tom’s review at A Common Reader
- Wittgenstein Jr, by Lars Iyers, see Tony’s review at Tony’s Book World
- The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell
- Nora Webster, by Colm Toibin
- The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters
- Eyrie, by Tim Winton, See Kim’s review at Reading Mattersthe shortlist will be announced on February 9th 2015.
Congratulations to all the authors, editors and publishers!
ANZ LitLovers LitBlog 
Nice to see Peter Carey, Michael Fab
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By: Vishy on December 15, 2014
at 4:10 am
Nice to see Peter Carey, Michel Faber, Tim Winton and Richard Flanagan on the list – Aussie literature rocks or what :) Nice to also see Sarah Waters on the list. I hope one of them wins.
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By: Vishy on December 15, 2014
at 4:24 am
great to see a prize release the longlist some interesting books on there , nut be honest I think maybe be two or three at most I will read , no time for anything else
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By: winstonsdad on December 15, 2014
at 8:06 am
I tried to get the Winton book while I was in USA last week but had no luck. In fact they didn;t have anything by him
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By: BookerTalk on December 16, 2014
at 9:10 am
Gosh, I’m surprised at that – Winton is one of our best known writers…
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By: Lisa Hill on December 16, 2014
at 6:40 pm