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Tag Archives: Baileys Prize
Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction – Longlist (and shortlist) 2016
Everything But The Girl takes on The Apprentice! It’s a pretty stellar judging panel over at the Baileys awards this year, with Margaret Mountford, Elif Shafak and Tracey Thorn taking to centre stage. Every year this prize just keeps on getting … Continue reading
Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction Best of the Decade OR “What a blinkin’ performance!”
It took an imminently expiring passport (you know that sinking “how did you let this happen” feeling?) and a belligerent bloke at the British Consulate here in Paree – “Désolé, Madame, mais le système a changé…” – to force a welcome … Continue reading
“The Road Home” by Rose Tremain (2007) – some things just get better with age
What a great writer. I raced headily through “Restoration” and its sequel “Merivel” last year, and within a few pages of “The Road Home” this week I felt myself to be back in good hands and on familiar territory. Rose … Continue reading
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Tagged Baileys Prize, Merivel, Orange Prize, Restoration, Rose Tremain, The Road Home
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“The Undertaking” by Audrey Magee (2014) – book review
Every now and then a book comes along that gets under your skin and literally knocks you off your size sixes. “The Undertaking” is such a novel, and it is going to stay with me for a very long time. … Continue reading
“We Need to Talk about Kevin” by Lionel Shriver (2003) – book review
Read a good while back, and subsequently watched the film starring Tilda Swinton, but now revisiting it in the light of it being the Orange / Baileys’s book of the year for 2005, and to urge anyone who knows not the plot to … Continue reading
“A Spool of Blue Thread” by Anne Tyler (2015) – book review
I don’t suppose many other people have watched the film “Philomena” three times (I know, ridiculous) and will have a clue what I am rabbiting on about, but if you too are a fan of Judi Dench and everything she touches, … Continue reading
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Tagged A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler, Baileys Prize, book review, books, Breathing Lessons, Judi Dench, Philomena, Steve Coogan, Vintage Books
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“The Bees” by Laline Paull (2014) – book review
Have just put this book down and am feeling nonplussed. On the one hand, was generally overjoyed at having finished all six of the 2015 shortlisted Baileys’s Prize picks inside the deadline; on the other am loath not to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Baileys Prize, book review, books, Laline Paull, Madeline Miller, The Bees, The Song of Achilles
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“How To Be Both” by Ali Smith (2014) – book review
Ali Smith is a genius. She is undoubtedly a contender for ‘author of the year’. And this is quite possibly the write-up of the times (hers, not mine, goes without saying), although the jacket cover, while being very alluring, is … Continue reading