Indie Book Awards 2021 Shortlist Announced
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Here’s the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2021, honouring paperback books across across four categories – Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children’s Fiction and Picture Book – all voted for by independent booksellers. Winners will be announced on Scala Radio on Friday June 25, but take a look and see if some of your favourite titles are here…
If you are looking for great summer reading to enjoy on holiday or at home, then you won’t go far wrong with some of the books below – and there’s something for all the family.
This year’s shortlist include the debut sensation Richard Osman (
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Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize.
2 How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates (Allen Lane, $48)
From the New York Times review: “Power comes in many forms, from geothermal and nuclear to congressional and economic; it’s wonderful that Gates has decided to work hard on climate questions, but to be truly helpful he needs to resolve to be a better geek he needs to really get down on his hands and knees and examine how that power works in all its messiness. Politics very much included.”
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by Sebastian Barry (Faber £8.99, 320 pp)
‘I am Winona.’ Sebastian Barry’s heroine introduces herself in the first sentence of his new novel. But she is not Winona or not exactly. She is a child of the Native American Lakota tribe.
Her family were massacred when she was a child, and she has been adopted by Thomas McNulty and his partner, John Cole, the protagonists of Barry’s earlier Costa Prize-winning novel, Days Without End.
The latest addition to Barry’s cycle of novels explores the bonds of family relationships.
In the lawless atmosphere of 19th-century Tennessee, Winona’s adoptive family seems painfully fragile but, amid the chaos, the certainties of justice and kindness hold fast. Barry’s beautifully written novel is a heart-stopping exploration of the healing power of love.