Orange Award for New Writers 2009 Shortlist
The Personal History Of Rachel DuPree
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
In 1917, Rachel is working as cook for the imperious Mrs DuPree, matriarch of a men's boarding house in Chicago's reeking slaughterhouse district. She allows herself to fall in love with Mrs DuPree's handsome soldier son... Buy or find out more →
Miles From Nowhere
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Virago
Joon is a young Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's infidelity and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of... Buy or find out more →
An Equal Stillness
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Winner of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writing.
Born in 1924, Jennet Mallow grows up in Yorkshire, the daughter of a minister haunted by memories of war and a mother who craves the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Entranced b... Buy or find out more →