Recommended

Awards news from Canada and around the world

Handmaid's Tale sequel leads 'exacting' 2019 Booker prize longlist

Most readers will have to wait until September to find out what happens in Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, but the Booker judges have deemed The Testaments worthy of a place on the 2019 longlist for the £50,000 literary prize. This is the sixth time the Canadian novelist has been nominated for the Booker, and her second nomination since she won the UK’s most prestigious literary prize for The Blind Assassin in 2000.

Read the Guardian article

Read The handmaid's tale

Photo of Margaret Atwood holding a copy of The handmaid's tale

News

Beloved author and activist Toni Morrison has passed away at the age of 88. 

Well regarded for her first book The Bluest Eye, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for her novel Beloved and was the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, awarded in 1993.  As a book editor, author, professor and activist Morrison was a powerful force in bringing Black voices, characters and perspectives to a wider audience. 

A recently released documentary about the life and work of Toni Morrison entitled The Pieces I Am, features interviews with the author, her contemporaries and fans about the impact of her work. 

Read Toni Morrison's work in accessible formats. 

portrait of Toni Morrison

New to read

Check out the Cavendon chronicles series!

Barbara Taylor Bradford, a former newspaper editor and nonfiction writer, is the author of many acclaimed women's fiction sagas.  The Cavendon chronicles, a tale spanning 16 years in Edwardian England, finds the centuries-long relationship between the aristocratic Inghams and the Swann family, who serves them, tested by the outbreak of World War I. 

Read books in the Cavendon chronicles series: Cavendon Hall; The Cavendon women; The Cavendon Luck; Secrets of Cavendon

Book cover of Cavendon chronicles series
Subscribe to Recommended