Books by Sarah Bernstein
“And in Canada the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize was won by Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience, an eerie and unsettling tale of xenophobia set in an unnamed northern country, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize earlier in the year. The Daily Telegraph declared it ‘a beautiful, riddling tale of a woman on the fringe of a rural community’ that, though ‘philosophically opaque,’ is both ‘elegant and electric.'” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Interviews where books by Sarah Bernstein were recommended
Award-Winning Novels of 2023, recommended by Cal Flyn
The enormous variety of new, beautifully-blurbed books being published every month presents an agony of choice for the casual reader. Luckily, literary prize shortlists offer a shortcut to discovering some of the best novels of the year. Here, Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn offers a helpful round-up of the award-winning novels of the 2023 season and a few notable runners-up. Read more fiction recommendations on Five Books
The Best Novels of 2023: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Cal Flyn
Every year, the judges for the Booker Prize read more than a hundred books that have been submitted by their publishers in the hope of being recognised by one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards. The 2023 shortlist features a novel-in-stories, an Irish dystopia, and plenty of family drama. See the Booker Prize shortlist 2024.
