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McGoohan
Okay, readers, I have rummaged in my TBR piles - it nearly fell on me, so narrow escape there.

I have pulled this one out from the middle of the Book Jenga, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political fiction in 2022 it is:

Appliance by J O Morgan.

Morgan's more known as a poet, but has published two novels, this being his second.
Oct 2024
9:52am, 29 Oct 2024
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McGoohan
Various gubbins added over there >>>> or there VVVVVVV or somewhere
Oct 2024
9:59am, 29 Oct 2024
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Diogenes
Something to add to my appliance drawer.
Oct 2024
11:17am, 29 Oct 2024
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LindsD
Thank you
Oct 2024
11:20am, 29 Oct 2024
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Diogenes
I was trying to think of poets who have also been successful novelists. I think many have worked in both, but mostly poets are poets and novelists are novelists. Are there any who have excelled in both?

Thomas Hardy comes to mind. Shakespeare, was pretty prolific, so much so that many people are convinced that his works weren't just the product of one person, but a collective pseudonym, and at least partly written by female writers (Jodi Piccoult, I'm looking at you).

Also Stevie Smith's "Novel On Yellow Paper" and "The Holiday" come to mind, but that's just two of three novels she wrote. Who else?
Oct 2024
11:40am, 29 Oct 2024
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DazTheSlug
James Dickey was mainly a poet I believe, but wrote the awesome novel "Deliverance"

ooh, Philip Larkin (I just read "A Girl In Winter")
Oct 2024
11:54am, 29 Oct 2024
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McGoohan
Vikram Seth wrote an entire novel, The Golden gate, in sonnets
Oct 2024
12:00pm, 29 Oct 2024
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Diogenes
Funnily enough I’ve never wanted to read that one.
Oct 2024
12:04pm, 29 Oct 2024
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McGoohan
I think I'm going to make it a retirement goal to rewrite James Joyce's entire collected works in limerick form

There was a young fellow called Dedalus...

Okay, I'm stuck already
Oct 2024
12:31pm, 29 Oct 2024
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Ocelot Spleens
Miraculous?

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January 2025 book


Welcome to Season Eight

Unbelievably, we've been renewed for another season

January 2025 (Maclennane)
I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/i-apos-m-starting-to-worry-about-this-black-box-of-doom---jason-pargin---jan-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63445
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Last two books of Season Seven

December 2024 (Westmoors)
Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
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November 2024 (McG)
Appliance (J O Morgan)
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Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11610

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