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> Newcomer Téa Obreht has won this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for The Tiger’s Wife. Set in the Balkans, The Tiger’s Wife tells the story of a young doctor who traces the life… more →
Readers in the Mist
New novel by prize-winning Nigerian author
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve just reviewed Americanah, by Chimamanda Adichie, for a state newspaper. Chimamanda Ngozi … more →
AtoZChallenge: O is for…Orange, who no longer support women's literature (boo! hiss!)
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wrote 1 month ago: When Orange announced, last year, that they would no longer be sponsoring a fiction prize for women … more →
The Women's Prize and Granta's Best Young Novelists
wrote 1 month ago: A couple of lists which have been announced in the last 24 hours. First, the shortlist for this year … more →
The 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction
wrote 1 month ago: Announced today! The shortlist for the 2013 Wom … more →
The Song of Achilles (Miller)
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wrote 1 month ago: There is much to admire about this book, Miller’s first novel. She has clearly done her homewo … more →
summer dreams.
wrote 1 month ago: Hi there, I’m in one of those moods where I just wish it was one of those hot summer days wher … more →
The Women's Prize for Fiction, and why there has to be one
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wrote 1 month ago: Deborah Copaken Kogan tells why, here. … more →
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks at Topping & Co about her new novel Americanah
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wrote 1 month ago: Adichie discusses her latest novel Americanah, the politics of hair, her novel’s title and Nig … more →
The Stella Prize Short List - a long time coming
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wrote 2 months ago: The issue of gender equality in literature one is a difficult one. One one side there is the argumen … more →
Don't try to fi...
wrote 2 months ago: Barbara Kingsolver (Photo credit: kkfea) Don’t try to figure out what other people want … more →
In which I suspect I am a bad feminist.
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wrote 2 months ago: The longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction came out yesterday, and the feminist literary b … more →
Georgina Harding: Painter of Silence (6th March)
wrote 3 months ago: If you want a powerful, hard-hitting story that will completely blow you away, Georgina Harding … more →
When Feedback Becomes A Distraction
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wrote 4 months ago: I spent most of last fall getting feedback on my book from an agent, a grant jury and other authors. … more →
Top five comfy chair reads 2012
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wrote 5 months ago: Imagine a scene: feet up; fire on; mug of tea to hand; children occupied elsewhere in the house and … more →
Book Review: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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wrote 6 months ago: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller My rating: 3 of 5 stars Greek mythology captured my imaginat … more →
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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wrote 7 months ago: In the week the Man Booker Prize winner is announced (Hilary Mantel for Bring up the Bodies), what d … more →
Review - Foreign Bodies, by Cynthia Ozick
wrote 7 months ago: Foreign Bodies is a novel about displacement and identity. Written primarily from the point of view … more →
In Defence of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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wrote 7 months ago: Today, it was announced that Mo Yan is the latest Nobel Laureate. As has come to be expected, a lot … more →
Winner Orange Prize for Fiction 2012
wrote 8 months ago: Song of Achilles. Madeline Miller. When I was a little girl I loved reading Greek myths and legends … more →
