Tag Archives: Kamila Shamsie

Home Fire- Kamila Shamsie

Posted on September 17, 2018 by mandywight

This brilliant novel by Kamila Shamsie won the Women’s Prize for Fiction this year 2018. It is known for its reworking of Sophocles’s tragedy Antigone and its prescience: we read about one of the main characters, Karamat Lone, a British … Continue reading →

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Two great Europeans- Lunatics, Lovers and Poets- Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare.

Posted on June 30, 2016 by mandywight

Now you may be aghast, in shock, in tears or denial about the outcome of the referendum on our membership of the European Union. And I’m not sure whether the brilliance of this book will delight and soothe you or … Continue reading →

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A God in Every Stone- Kamila Shamsie

Posted on July 5, 2015 by mandywight

This novel, which was shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 has an epic reach with a complex plot and large cast of characters. It tells the story of Vivian Rose Spencer, unusually, for the times, a young … Continue reading →

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