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Holiday reading list: 10 standout books you’ll love under a beach umbrella

The holidays are a great time to bury yourself in a new read, so here are 10 books to keep you reading over the break.    

The New Daily · Dec 25, 2022

Booker Prize winner lets ghosts of Sri Lanka's past speak

Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to give voice to Sri Lanka’s dead

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2022

‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams

Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2022

Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winner is narrated by a dead man - but it’s a novel full of life

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a photographer during Sri Lanka’s civil war, has tremendous comic energy

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022

Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is compelling about conflict – but not a simple read

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won this year’s £50,000 prize for a metaphysical thriller about the horrors of civil war. It’s easy to see why the judges liked it, writes Martin Chilton, but a shame to see Claire Keegan miss out for her moving novella

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Epic ghost story wins this year’s Booker Prize

Shehan Karunatilaka accepted the £50,000 prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida at a ceremony at the Roundhouse

Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2022

‘The story had been stirring in me for most of my life’: How I wrote a Booker-shortlisted novel

NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Alan Garner and others reveal the inspiration for the books up for this year’s award

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2022