Palast der Miserablen
In early 2020, the German-Iraqi author Abbas Khider published his fifth novel, which is set in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s dictatorial regime.
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Dark Emu
When I started reading Bruce Pascoe’s account of “Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture”, as Dark Emu is billed on the cover, I must confess I didn’t expect it to be page-turner. But it is.
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The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell’s debut The Old Drift is a challenging, many-layered novel about relationships between states and people that change with the world around them.
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Turning: A Swimming Memoir
In her book Turning: A Swimming Memoir, Jessica J. Lee relates how swimming in the lakes of Berlin and Brandenburg not only helped her feel at home in this region, but also helped her work through a painful love story and childhood fears.
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Speaking and being: how language binds and frees us
Kübra Gümüşay looks for ways to make our society more just and explains convincingly that language plays a central role in doing this.
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Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker-prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other tells the stories of twelve people – as the dust jacket puts it – ‘mostly women, mostly Black’ for whom Britain has, in one way or another, been a home.
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A Black Women’s History of the United States
A Black Women’s History of the United States is a great resource for readers interested in US history in general and Black women’s role in it specifically.
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Two Trees Make a Forest
Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest is part ode to Taiwan, part loving meditation on the natural world, and part investigative journey into a family’s lost histories.
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1000 Coils of Fear
Olivia Wenzel’s strange and powerfully poetic debut tackles many pressing topics ranging from race to relationships with family members and coming to terms with one’s past and present.
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The Testaments
Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale was widely met with approval and accolades, culminating it its being awarded a shared Booker Prize.
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