S1E11: Booker breakdown - Atwood, Rushdie or the 1,000-page sentence?: Bookmark This! Ep 11

Bookmark This! Ep 11: Booker breakdown - Atwood, Rushdie or the 1,000-page sentence?

27:30 mins

Synopsis: A monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.

Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li break down the Booker Prize shortlist and weigh Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie's chances against Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport, which is more than 1,000 pages long.

00:51 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
05:15 Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
07:30 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World by Elif Shafak
12:26 An Orchestra Of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
15:26 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
19:27 Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Produced by: Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li
Edited by: Penelope Lee

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