The 2024 Orwell Prize For Political Fiction- Shortlist Deep Dive
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- Hello! I’m Bob, and I loved reading the shortlist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction!
I hope you enjoy the list and I’d love to hear about any you liked!
Books Mentioned:
00:00 Introduction and Context
01:37 Merle Collins- Ocean Stirrings
04:14 Percival Everett- James
06:48 Samantha Harvey- Orbital
08:35 Hisham Matar- My Friends
11:20 Megan Nolan- Ordinary Human Failings
13:03 Andrew O’Hagan- Caledonian Road
16:17 Adam Thirlwell- The Future Future
17:50 Justin Torres- Blackouts
20:07 My Favourites
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Thanks, Bob. I'm especially looking forward to reading "Caledonian Road."
Thank you! And yes, I’m intrigued to read more of his work!
Thank you Bob ❤
I'd never heard of 'Ocean Stirrings' or 'The Future Future' (which sounds quite an experience lol).
'Blackouts' is brilliant, and I got a copy of the Megan Nolan, but haven't got to it yet, looking forward to that one.
Nice! I hope you like them! And yes, Blackouts is such a clever piece of writing! I really hope it gets some extra love.
From this list I've only read James and Blackouts so far; they are two of my favorite novels that I've read this year. I plan to read a few of the others, especially Orbital, My Friends and Ordinary Human Failings.
Nice! I hope you like the rest- so many lovely books on this list!
I think you pretty much bullseyed My Friends as spot on political and yet hugely thoughtful around the political. I write this after the result
Thank you!
I've only read Blackouts and I absolutely loved it. I'm interested in getting to all of them eventually but I think Ordinary Human Failings is too of my tbr, along with James. Thanks for the rundown!
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Great video thanks! I’m reading James at the moment and it’s sooo good. I loved Blackouts too
Thank you! And nice! I hope you continue to like it!
Thanks, Bob!🌷I’ve only read Ordinary Human Failings and I think it would have deserved being shortlisted for the WP😢I’m glad to see it on this list. I have My Friends which was highly praised by Eric Karl Anderson some time ago, and look forward to reading it. I’m also considering Caledonian Road. Anyway, it’s an exciting list indeed!
Yes! I’d have loved to have seen OHF make the Women’s shortlist!
And yes, My Friends is such a good book!
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Oh my goodness, this is the dream! 😂
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Aha, thank you!
I am rooting for My Friends.
Yes! Great novel!
@@BobTheBookerer He did it!!!!!
@@HelenSchneider-tl3yh Yes! Very worthy winner!
Love the idea of this award--it might be the one to make me pay attention to one of them...? :P
Yes! The books are so often my kind of thing!
Thank you for breaking down the list. (I've read three (James, Orbital, Ordinary Human Failings) and liked them very much. I really wanted OHF to make the Women's Prize shortlist. I'm waiting for the library for a couple of the others.) I am very curious about Ocean Stirrings. I've read the Autobiography of Malcolm X and his view of women left something to be desired, and I've wondered about his mother's side of the story. I'm not super keen on fictionalised accounts of real people though. That always seems like a bit of a violation.
Oh that’s really interesting about Malcolm X’s book- I’ve not read it, so I wonder if Merle Collins intentionally went from that perspective because of it
@@BobTheBookerer His autobiography is really interesting. Not sure it's entirely correct to call it an autobiography because it was written by a journalist and Malcolm was murdered before he could see the final result, but it's all from the conversations they had.