Orange Prize

We Need To Talk About Kevin

19 July 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment

There are some books which are wonderful reads, but tough at the same time and generally not ones that lend themselves to re-reading. Lionel Shriver’s 2005 Orange-Prize winning novel We Need To Talk About Kevin is one of those books…

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: difficult children, Ezra Miller, John C Reilly, Lionel Shriver, Lynne Ramsay, mother son relationships, Orange Prize, teenage killers, Tilda Swinton, We Need to talk about Kevin

Madeline Miller WIns Orange Prize

30 May 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment

Congratulations to debut novelist Madeline Miller who has won the Orange Prize for fiction with her first novel The Song of Achilles. The Orange Prize celebrates women’s writing and I’ve always found it to be the literary prize that I’ve most identified with….

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: Half of a Yellow Sun, literary awards, Madeline Miller, Orange Prize, Small Island, The Song of Achilles, We Need to talk about Kevin

Top Ten: Books To Read This Summer

25 May 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment

One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to read at least 75 books, that works out at about one and a half a week and it seemed perfectly achievable. But unfortunately I’m not quite keeping up to speed…

Filed Under: Top 10 Tagged With: Asa Larsson, Assassin's Apprentice, Booker Prize, Bram Stoker, City of Veils, Dennis Avey, Dracula, From Dictatorship to Democracy, Gene Sharp, Holocaust, Let The Right One In, Matilda, Orange Prize, Patrick DeWitt, Raindance, Roald Dahl, Robin Hobb, Scandinavian crime, Tea Obrecht, The Man who Broke into Auschwitz, The Sisters Brothers, The Tiger's WIfe, Trudi Canavan

Orange Prize Shortlist Announced

19 April 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment

The shortlist for this year’s Orange Prize for fiction has been announced. The nominees for the 17th annual award for excellence in women’s fiction are….

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: Ann Patchett, Anne Enright, Cynthia Ozick, Esi Edugyan, Foreign Bodies, Georgina Harding, Half Blood Blues, literary prizes, Madeline Miller, Orange Prize, Painter of Silence, State of Wonder, The Forgotten Waltz, The Song of Achilles

Kaplinsky joins Orange judges

12 October 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

Highly paid newsreader and the first winner of Strictly Come Dancing, Natasha Kaplinsky, has joined the judging panel for the 2012 Orange Prize for fiction. Kaplinsky will work with fellow judges Lisa Appignanesi, Victoria Derbyshire, Natalie Haynes and Joanna Trollope to choose the best book written by a woman. According to Trollope, who will be chairing the judging panel the “different professions” of the five judges will bring different perspectives to the prize. These different professions are journalist, broadcaster and author…

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: authors, Joanna Trollope, Lisa Appignanesi, literary prizes, Natalie Haynes, Natasha Kaplinsky, Orange Prize, Victoria Derbyshire