Shortlist Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024
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Three Burials
Anders Lustgarten
“There are three of them in the car and one of them is dead.”
How can a book about such serious topics as immigration, politics, corruption and racism also be so thrilling and even funny? Lustgarten succeeds in doing just that! 'Three Burials' is a book full of energy and excitement and would make an excellent film. It's definitely a wild ride!
Winner Booker Prize 2023
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
A brilliant, satirical skewering of our obsession with nostalgia and the past, written by a master of European literature.
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Kick the Latch
Kathryn Scanlan
A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka.