Notes from a Bookocalypse
b'The Papercuts gals are back to help you navigate the huge flood of incredible books that were delayed by Covid-19 and are now finally available for your reading pleasure. We also bring you our usual winning formula: a hot scoop of book industry news, our insightful book reviews and discussions, our not-book reviews and our dangerously teetering TBR piles. Come up the Papercuts lab and see what\\u2019s on the slab!\\n\\nBooks reviewed this episode:\\nKD: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Summerwater by Sarah Moss and Mayflies by Andrew O\\u2019Hagan\\nLK: Sisters by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape) & Nothing to See by Pip Adam (VUP)\\nJT: Deep Work by Cal Newport (Little & Brown)\\n\\nNot books:\\nKD: Gloss on YouTube\\nLK: The Great on Neon\\nJT: Origins on TVNZ\\n\\nThe TBR Pile:\\nKD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador) and Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt)\\xa0and 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the Ockhams!\\nLK: The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemison (Orbit), The Swimmers by Chloe Lane (VUP), Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence and Gibson)\\nJT: Tree of Strangers by Barbara Sumner (MUP), Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape), Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Bloomsbury)\\n\\nBook news:\\n\\nThe NZ Children\\u2019s and Young Adults Book Awards were held on 12th August. Congratulations to all the winners, especially Selina Tusitala Marsh, whose first children\\u2019s book Mophead (AUP) won Margaret Mahy Book of the Year.\\n\\nMaggie O\\u2019Farrell has won the 2020 Women\\u2019s Prize for Fiction for her novel Hamnet (Tinder Press).\\n\\nMarieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the International Booker Prize for their debut novel The Discomfort of Evening (trans by Michele Hutchinson, Faber).\\n\\n\\nThe Booker Prize 2020 shortlist has been announced! There\\u2019s no Hilary Mantel, and it\\u2019s the most diverse shortlist ever!\\n\\n\\nLineups for WORD (28 October\\u20131 November), VERB (6\\u20138 November 2020) and YARNS IN BARNS ( 8\\u201318th October) have been announced \\u2013 get amongst!\\xa0\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'