Orange Prize Shortlist Announced
by Ryan McBride - Tuesday Apr 15 2008 3:21 pm
Posted in: Awards


And then there were six. The panel of judges of this year's Orange Prize has just announced its shortlist for 2008. Three of the finalists are first-time novelists.

According to The Guardian,
Chair of the judges Kirsty Lang said she was "extremely pleased" to see Sadie Jones's The Outcast, Heather O'Neill's Lullabies for Little Criminals and Patricia Wood's Lottery make the shortlist alongside some very established authors "on a list that reflects the scope, variety and international breadth of the Orange prize."

The other three novels on this year's list include When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson, The Road Home by Rose Tremain, and Fault Lines by Nancy Huston.

The winner will be announced June 4.



See:
The Outcast - hardcover
By Sadie Jones - $32.95 - add to cart

As menacing as it is beautiful, The Outcast is a devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new voice poised for international recognition.It’s 1957 and Lewis Aldridge i...

 

Lullabies for Little Criminals - trade paperback
By Heather O''neill - $17.50 - add to cart

Finalist for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Awards for Fiction.Winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2007.Heather O'Neill dazzles with a first novel of extraordinary prescience and power, a subtly und...

 

Lottery - trade paperback
By Patricia Wood - $15.50 - add to cart

Money isn’t the same as treasure, and IQ isn’t the same as smarts…An uplifting and joyous new novel hailed by Jacqueline Mitchard as “solid gold.” Perry L. Crandall knows what it’s like to be a...

 

When We Were Bad - trade paperback
By Charlotte Mendelson - $17.99 - add to cart

Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife, mother, rabbi and sometime moral voice of the nation, everyone wants to be with her at her older son’s glorious February wedding. Until Leo becomes a bolter an...

 

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...

 

Fault Lines - hardcover
By Nancy Huston - $29.95 - add to cart

Sol is a gifted but also terrifying six year old; his mother believes he is destined for greatness. He has a birthmark, like his dad, his grandmother and great-grandmother. But when they all make a...

 




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