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Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social · 8d

Perfect!

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 8d

Unsurprisingly, Keir Starmer doesn’t know the word ‘spine’

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 8d

A morning in Deptford with Karl Ove Knausgaard, an evening in Bristol with Mariana Enríquez

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 15d

Love this exchange between an uncle and his niece, from Knausgaard’s new novel

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 15d

Susan Choi, Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura, Ben Markovits, Andrew Miller, and David Szalay. Congratulations too to all those on the longlist.

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 15d

Never been in a book club before; could never imagine being part of a better one than this. It’s been an amazing journey with these incredible people.

This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 16d

Me in the @theguardian.com on @thebookerprizes.com shortlist www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them | Chris Power

Ben Markovits, David Szalay, Kiran Desai, Andrew Miller, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura’s books will all take you on enthralling journeys

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Sep 9

Mavis Gallant on writing so many stories that if she published them all in one volume you wouldn’t be able to pick it up

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Aug 26

‘M and I both secretly felt that it was the ways in which we had been damaged that had given us our power.’

Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Aug 21

From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, Chris Power shares eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books ⤵️

https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s

How to read like a Booker Prize judge – according to Chris Power | The Booker Prizes

From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, here are eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books

thebookerprizes.pulse.ly

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Full house, unsurprisingly, for Laurent Binet interviewed by Chris Power at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which is a bit of an ultimate buy one get two...

@chrispower.bsky.social @atahualpavasari.bsky.social

#eibf

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Aug 4

For anyone curious to read Kiran Desai’s @thebookerprizes.com longlisted novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, but frustrated by its September publication date, you can read a sliver of it (in relative terms) here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“An Unashamed Proposal,” by Kiran Desai

Look, Sunny said, however progressive my mother is, she is an Indian woman from another generation. Do you really think I can tell her that we sleep in the same bed?

www.newyorker.com

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 29

I’m very happy the Booker longlist is now public and I can once again actually talk to people about great books I’ve read recently thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

The Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes

The longlist for the Booker Prize 2025 has been announced, and features a previous winner plus two debut novelists

thebookerprizes.com

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 29

100%. I’ll message you.

Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 28

Let’s see how I’m looking after the longlist is published

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 26

Happy 80th birthday to the great man/writer/climber/lunch companion @mjohnharrison.bsky.social. It’s an honour to know you.

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 18

Of course that number degrades throughout the day!

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 18

For the Booker I was trying to read for 7 hours a day, beginning very early in the morning. Some days I didn’t manage it, sometimes I did more. I’m not a fast reader; I probably average about 40 pp/hr

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 18

We saw you from across the… etc thebookerprizes.substack.com/p/get-to-kno...

Get to know the Booker Prize 2025 judges

Roddy Doyle, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power and Kiley Reid reveal how they’ve made more time for reading and why talking about books is always illuminating

thebookerprizes.substack.com

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 18

Happy synchronicity! It should have won

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Jul 18

Delighted that Booker judge @chrispower.bsky.social’s choice👇of favourite Booker book (for today) is Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room, which is one of my top picks too, and which was a shoo-in for my list☝️of genre-bending Booker books.

Chris Power interview: ‘I’ve read 150 books in seven months yet still spend too much time doomscrolling’ | The Booker Prizes

Chris Power, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, discusses how Tolkien ignited his love of fiction and how reading as part of a group can be transformative

thebookerprizes.com

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 17

Me on reading a load of books. And Tolkien! And Galgut! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Chris Power interview: ‘I’ve read 150 books in seven months yet still spend too much time doomscrolling’ | The Booker Prizes

Chris Power, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, discusses how Tolkien ignited his love of fiction and how reading as part of a group can be transformative

thebookerprizes.com

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 17

1 seat left at the IMAX for the opening weekend of The Odyssey next July

Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · Jul 15

Henri Troyat on the death of Chekhov, 15 July 1904

(When James Salter read ‘Errand’ he couldn’t believe how much of the death scene Carver had lifted from Troyat)

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