Charlotte Wood

2 months ago | kirkusreviews.com | Charlotte Wood |Kristin Hannah |Alison Espach

A woman abruptly exits her life for a cloistered religious community in this Australian novel that was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. The narrator’s initial reasons for visiting the abbey are vague: She’s tired; she wants to escape; her marriage is falling apart; she’s still grieving her parents, dead for more than 35 years; she’s disillusioned with her work in the environmental conservation movement. The predictability of the nuns’ rituals turns out to be profoundly restorative.

Nov 14, 2024 | telegraphindia.com | Charlotte Wood

The taxing mental and emotional maze that Wood creates is hypnotic but there is something essential missing in the story — perhaps a structure, for the lack of a better word Nandini Bhatia Published 15.11.24, 05:41 AM STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL By Charlotte Wood Sceptre, Rs 799 In wanting to escape the chaos of our capitalist and consumerist lifestyles, we get more and more entangled in their webs. Charlotte Wood’s middle-aged, unnamed narrator decides to break free from this vicious cycle and...

Nov 8, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Rachel Kushner |Samantha Harvey |Charlotte Wood |Anne Michaels

One of the highlights of the annual Booker Prize season comes when each of the shortlisted authors is presented with a unique, hand-bound edition of their nominated works, created by Fellows from the Designer Bookbinders society. These extraordinary, one-of-a-kind books are designed and made between the shortlist announcement and winner ceremony.

Oct 30, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Charlotte Wood |Blake Morrison

The mouse plague​ in Queensland and New South Wales in 2020-21 was overshadowed by Covid-19. But the plague within the plague was no small matter. Heavy rain after a long drought meant bumper grain crops, which colonies of mice devastated. The use of poison (zinc phosphide coated on wheat and scattered around pastures) had little effect: there were always more mice.

Oct 23, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | William Trevor |Carol Diggory Shields |Arundhati Roy |Charlotte Wood

Autumn. It’s a period of transition and change, ‘a time when the nights are sooner, chillier, the light a little less each time’. These words, written by Ali Smith in her Booker Prize 2019-shortlisted novel, aptly titled Autumn, sum up the essence of the season. As this shift unfolds, we reached out to you, our readers, for your favourite books to curl up with as the nights draw in (we see you with envy, Southern Hemisphere friends).