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Profile of Simon Savidge

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Simon Savidge blogs at Savidge Reads, is the chair of the Green Carnation Prize and is founder of the Readers podcast.


 

Simon Savidge's News & Views

World Book Night: a starry night for readers
24/04/2013

"World Book Night gets books into the hands of those who might not read," said author Patrick...

The Women's Prize: a man's perspective
16/04/2013

As a man I wonder if I am meant to find little of interest in the Women’s Prize for Fiction (...

Books of the Year: Simon Savidge
20/12/2012

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Simon Savidge's picks for the Man Booker longlist
24/07/2012

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Big guns and bridesmaids: the Booker longlist
26/07/2011

With only one previous winner, Alan Hollinghurst, on...

Simon Savidge's Reviews

Booker Prize Longlist: On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry
Posted 08/08/2011

There is a rare moment, as a reader, when a narrator’s voice makes the hairs on the back of you neck stand up with emotion: a kind of book lover’s bliss – even when the content is sad.

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Booker Prize Longlist: Far To Go
Alison Pick
Posted 05/09/2011

The way the publishers seem to be selling Far To Go is as a tale of the Kindertransport, which took thousands of Jewish children to the safety of Britain from Nazi Germany during the Second World W

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Home
Toni Morrison
Posted 03/05/2012

Darkness and questions seem to be the themes in Toni Morrison’s latest novella Home.

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The Forrests
Emily Perkins
Posted 24/05/2012

Emily Perkins' latest novel is a dreamlike tale of families and the things that go unsaid in a life. 

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Gone to the Forest
Katie Kitamura
Posted 14/02/2013

Katie Kitamura’s second novel, Gone To The Forest, starts off very quietly and then takes you by surprise, delivering a cracking great wallop at the end.

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