Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2008
Fault Lines
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
A funny, touching family tale told from the perspectives of four six-year-olds, each a generation older than the one before, FAULT LINES examines the physical and emotional legacy of families. Buy or find out more →
Lottery
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
Perry's IQ is only 76, but he's not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won't forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. A... Buy or find out more →
The Outcast
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his family home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and just nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole... Buy or find out more →
When We Were Bad
$0.00 – Paperback book / Picador
'The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness' 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 Februa... Buy or find out more →
Lullabies For Little Criminals
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Quercus
Lullabies For Little Criminals is the heartbreaking and wholly original debut novel by This American Life contributor Heather O'Neill, about a young girl fighting to preserve her bruised innocence on the feral streets of... Buy or find out more →
The Road Home
$32.95$14.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving...' Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe t... Buy or find out more →