This is me, party-pooping. Again…
Books and other things mentioned:
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (2017)
- Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie (2018)
Jennifer @InsertLiteraryPunHere: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm-7CYD6E97yulCpHJHCI6Q
Article about Up-Lit: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/16/up-lit-eleanor-oliphant-gone-girl-fiction-kindness
The 2018 Women’s prize for fiction longlist:
H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker (William Heinemann)
The Idiot by Elif Batuman (Jonathan Cape)
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon (The Borough Press)
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig (Grove Press)
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (Corsair)
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (Harvill Secker)
Sight by Jessie Greengrass (John Murray)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (Harper Collins)
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy (Atlantic)
Elmet by Fiona Mozley (John Murray)
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (Hamish Hamilton)
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt (Tinder Press)
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert (Virago)
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury)
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal (Viking)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury Circus)
Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com
twitter: https://twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittaboehler/
By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1
I also wrote some books:
The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php
as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW
and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt/
