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The gang are back with their usual witches brew of book news, insightful book reviews and discussions, not-book reviews and their dangerously teetering TBR piles. Books reviewed this episode: KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador/Grove Atlantic) LK: Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt Books) JT: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (Granta) Not books: KD: Magazines are back! Welcome back Metro and North & South LK: Season Two of His Dark Materials and Daisy Johnson’s horror fiction recommendations. JT: Chris Parker’s This is How I Felt The TBR Pile: KD: 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the 2021 Ockhams and books from a Fitzcarraldo Editions subscription LK: White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi and The Residents by Lucy Revill JT: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar and Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey Book news: Shuggie Bain won the Booker Prize!  The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison won the Goldsmith Prize! A book about the bloody Beatle