I am always spilling words. Mucky pup. He/him. Black Lives Matter. I do book reviews on YouTube as Bob The Bookerer.
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23 Jun 2021
So, in recognition of my favourite artist, I may have made a video talking about the literary references in the music of @KateBushMusic - Enjoy!
youtube.com/watch?v=ksGaol-6…
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17 Dec 2025
So, after about 5/6 years, I have finally completed a big reading project: reading every one of the 340 books shortlisted for @TheBookerPrizes since it started in 1969.
Here’s me talking about it here, and much more to come!
youtu.be/iXhe52eRvLY?si=O9SD…
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2 Dec 2025
The NY Times just posted their '10 best books of 2025' and I'm here to discuss it: youtube.com/watch?v=YvzWGWIS…
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5 Nov 2025
Another year, another fantastic shortlist for the @GoldsmithsPrize - here’s me talking about these six wonderful books! youtu.be/BkV1PQjQbbI?si=5mxm…
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31 Jul 2025
We have partnered up, rebranded, and submissions are now open. Go here: republicofconsciousness.com/…
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29 Jul 2025
Here are the 13 novels long listed for this year's Booker Prize!
Watch me discuss an overview of the list and each novel individually: youtube.com/watch?v=j2puxNst…
#BookerPrize2025
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4 Jul 2025
Continuing on my project to read all the shortlisted books from across the history of @TheBookerPrizes here is the 1990 shortlist! Getting very close to the end of the project now!
youtu.be/gj-mzzqbq1s?si=DS0j…
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2 Jul 2025
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Support our crowdfunding so that we can continue to make the invisible visible.
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26 Jun 2025
💜WHY 3TIMESREBEL MATTERS💜
We're so much more than just a publishing house. We're a home for women writing in minority languages, whose voices have been silenced for too long by mainstream publishing
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12 Jun 2025
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Any donation or help spreading the word would mean the world to us 💜
Join our crowdfunding campaign now and help us continue publishing bold stories!
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12 Feb 2025
ALL THE YOUNG QUEERS tour day six and it's over to the Bob the Bookerer #YouTube channel for a review of
@nathanevansarts collection like no other. This is an insightful and lively ten minute #MustWatch – though we could listen to @wordbib all day! bit.ly/3CzkKv2
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27 Nov 2024
Reading the lists for the @PolariPrize is a joy every year, and here is me talking about two of this year’s shortlists!
youtu.be/yzKn0nTzTQU?si=pCaA…
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6 Nov 2024
Today of all days, read a book suffused in kindness.
As Leonard's mother says.
'The only acceptable excuse for not having a bird table in the back garden was that you had one in the front garden.'
Leonard and Hungry Paul by @MumblinDeafRo
@booksaremybag
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1 Nov 2024
I really enjoyed reading the shortlist for the @notabeneprize - clever and challenging books that are compulsively readable.
Here’s me talking about them:
youtu.be/ZrEEMosGDfo?si=WO2J…
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1 Nov 2024
31st October 1st November
ALT Kate Bush dressed as a bat
ALT Kate Bush in various items of winter clothing, including a pair of snow-covered gloves
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Announcing the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024! From Brazil to South Korea to Poland, we honour superbly translated work from great writers of the present and the recent past.
tinyurl.com/3uff923y
ALT A photograph of the six titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024. The books are stood on their side with spines showing. They are on a wooden surface against a brick wall.
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28 Oct 2024
Less than 24 hours left to support our crowdfunder.
Help us reach at least 15k so we can keep publishing translated literature from the global majority.
Hear from Dr. Anandi Rao, lecturer in South Asian studies at SOAS on why she loves TAP.
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24 Oct 2024
I loved reading the shortlist to one of the most exciting book prizes out there, the @GoldsmithsPrize and here is me talking about this fascinating set of 6 books:
The 2024 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist- Innovative Fiction!
youtu.be/x23dOvamdz4
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10 Oct 2024
Congratulations to Han Kang for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature!
We'd also like to extend praise to translators Deborah Smith (@videshi_beti) and e. yaewon who have brought her work to the anglophone world.
This is a huge win for translated fiction. 🏆
10 Oct 2024
”I’m so surprised and honoured.”
2024 literature laureate Han Kang had just finished dinner with her son at her home in Seoul when she received the news of her #NobelPrize. We spoke to her, moments after she found out about growing up with books, being the first South Korean literature laureate and what book she recommends those new to her works should begin with.
Han Kang also tells how she plans to celebrate her Nobel Prize: "I’d like to have tea with my son. I’ll celebrate it quietly."
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10 Oct 2024
WOW WOW WOW! 😍 Congratulations to Words Without Borders contributor Han Kang and her many translators, including her translators to English: Deborah Smith, Emily Yae Won, and Paige Aniyah Morris!
wordswithoutborders.org/cont…
10 Oct 2024
BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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