Orange Prize

The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK's largest annual literary award for a single novel. Since its launch in 1996 it has become one of the most prestigious and influential awards in the literary calendar.

The prize was the brainchild of a group of senior women in the publishing industry. They met in the winter of 1992 to discuss why so few novels by women were making it to the shortlists of the established literary awards.

Together, they created the Orange Prize for Fiction. Its aim: to celebrate novels of excellence by women writers. The prize also helps promote women writers to as wide a range of readers as possible.



This is a selection of our Orange Prize section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

The Road Home - trade paperback
By Rose Tremain - $21.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction.Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. Readers will b...

 

Half of a Yellow Sun - trade paperback
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction.With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughte...

 

On Beauty - trade paperback
By Zadie Smith - $19.50 - add to cart

Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction.Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families—the Belseys and the Kippses—and a clutch of doomed affairs. It...

 

We Need to Talk About Kevin - trade paperback
By Lionel Shriver - $16.50 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction.The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awryEva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not the mother of the unlovable...

 

Small Island - trade paperback
By Andrea Levy - $14.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book .Winner of the 2004 Whitbread AwardWinner of the 2004 Orange Prize for FictionIt is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 2...

 

Property - trade paperback
By Valerie Martin - $15.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction.From the acclaimed author of Mary Reilly, a groundbreaking novel that reexamines the questions of power and resistance, violence and sex, which inform al...

 

Bel Canto - trade paperback
By Ann Patchett - $15.50 - add to cart

Winner of the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction.In Bel Canto, Ann Patchett weaves a tale of music, romance, hostage-taking and diplomacy. Character and relationship driven, it is a novel that could be ...

 

The Idea of Perfection - trade paperback
By Kate Grenville - $14.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.Set in the eccentric little backwater town of Karakarook, New South Wales, "The Idea of Perfection" tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a gawky enginee...

 

When I Lived In Modern Times - trade paperback
By Linda Grant - $16.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2000 Orange Prize for Fiction.Evelyn Sert journeys to Tel Aviv, where Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany are determined to forge a modern consciousness in the heart of the Middle East....

 

Larry's Party - trade paperback
By Carol Shields - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction.Larry Weller is an ordinary guy. His dreamy adolescence, spent avoiding the atmosphere of tragedy that haunts his parents, gives way to adulthood by acci...

 

Fugitive Pieces - trade paperback
By Anne Michaels - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction.Anne Michaels’ spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. As a young boy during the Secon...