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1 month ago | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Karen Jennings |Miranda July |Elizabeth Strout
The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist We’re thrilled to celebrate 30 years of the Women’s Prize for Fiction! Established in 1996, the Women’s Prize for Fiction is meant to “highlight and remedy the imbalance in coverage, respect and reverence given to women writers versus their male peers, creating a platform for exceptional writing by women to shine.” With previous winners like Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Ruth Ozeki, Tayari Jones, A.M. Homes and...
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2 months ago | 
womensprize.com | Parini Shroff |Ruth Ozeki |Elizabeth Strout |Hanya Yanagihara
Each has their own unique story to tell. Let’s hear from some of the longlisted, shortlisted and winners about their books and inspirations. Find out more about the twenty-five books selected to celebrate the prize at WHSmith’s here. The Bandit Queensby Parini Shroff Find out more Describe your novel in one sentence as if you were telling a friend.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Samuel Burr |Haruki Murakami |Elizabeth Strout |Naoise Dolan
The extraordinary, gloriously uplifting and hotly-anticipated debut novel from Samuel Burr - available to pre-order now!Clayton Stumper is an enigma... He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your grandad and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by the sharpest minds in the British Isles and finds himself amongst the last survivors of a fading institution.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
penguinrandomhouse.co.za | Elizabeth Strout
A hopeful novel about friendship, love, and the desire to leave a mark on the world by Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout. In Maine, lawyer Bob Burgess defends a man accused of murder while forming a deep bond with writer Lucy Barton. Lucy also befriends Olive Kitteridge, and together they share stories of “unrecorded lives,” giving them meaning. Through their connections, they explore hopes, regrets, and the power of relationships.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
time.com | Annabel Gutterman |Elizabeth Strout
These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Annabel GuttermanNovember 13, 2024 8:02 AM ESTThe universes of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout’s beloved characters Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess collide in this lovingly told novel set in the fictional town of Crosby, Maine.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Elif Shafak |Elizabeth Strout |Anne Michaels |Marta Hillers
Kavita is the creator, writer and presenter of the Three Million podcast on BBC Sounds, which won the Gold for Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2024, and the accompanying book – a “groundbreaking” investigation of the 1943 Bengal famine – is set to publish in 2026. Her Radio 4 docu-series Three Pounds in My Pocket is currently on its fifth season and has been described as “captivating and epic” by The Guardian.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
sffoghorn.com | Elizabeth Strout
From simple French tips to intricate designs, USF students sport nail art. Some turn to traditional salons, but a growing number of students are turning to nail artists on campus whose small businesses cater primarily to students. Not defined by a singular style so much as an assortment of passion projects, the stories behind USF’s manicures and the artists who paint them are as vivid and varied as the colorful sets themselves.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Elizabeth Strout |Kimberly Farr
Each month, our friends at AudioFile Magazine share a curated list of the best audiobooks for your literary listening pleasure. Article continues after advertisement*NOVEMBER FICTIONTell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout| Read by Kimberly FarrAudioFile Earphones Award[Random House Audio | 11 hrs.]Article continues after advertisementNarrator Kimberly Farr pretty much owns Elizabeth Strout’s Maine characters at this point, and what a good thing that is.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Elizabeth Strout |Philippe Besson |Sally Rooney |Richard Powers
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent' GuardianIt's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Elizabeth Strout
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Cloggie Downunder
Moving and uplifting.
“She thought nothing could be told and be accurate. Feeble words dropped earnestly and haphazardly over the large stretched-out fabric of life with all its knots and bumps”The Burgess Boys is the fifth novel by award-winning, best-selling American author, Elizabeth Strout.
