Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 Longlist
The Lost Dog
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Whatever the linguistic equivalent of perfect pitch may be, she
has it - Sunday Telegraph (UK)
The Lost Dog is the extraordinary new novel by the acclaimed
writer Michelle de Kretser. Her first novel, The Rose
Grower, w... Buy or find out more →
The Household Guide To Dying
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Picador
On the face of it, Delia's got it all - good marriage, two great kids, dream job writing witty, practical house and garden books. But when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer, she's forced to view her life in an entirel... Buy or find out more →
A Mercy
$39.95$34.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefull... Buy or find out more →
Love Marriage
$33.00 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
The daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, Yalini finds herself caught between the traditions of her ancestors and the lure of her own modern world. But when she is su... Buy or find out more →
Their Finest Hour And A Half
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Doubleday
A black comedy about the making of a propaganda film in World War II.
It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyone must d... Buy or find out more →
Intuition
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
'[Goodman's] characters so live and breathe on the page that they could get up and make you a cup of coffee while you finish the next chapter. Intuition is a stunning achievement.' Economist
Sandy Glass and Marion Mendel... Buy or find out more →
The Flying Troutmans
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
A heartbreaking and funny story of a family in search of itself.
Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through... Buy or find out more →
The Russian Dreambook Of Colour And Flight
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Portobello
This bewitching novel of post-Soviet lives moves between the magical, the comical and the transcendent to portray a people who rely on dreams to defy the coming of dereliction and decay.
In her very dusty provincial muse... Buy or find out more →
Burnt Shadows
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this, he wonders? August 9th 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taki... Buy or find out more →
Evening Is The Whole Day
$32.99$27.95 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding first novel introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets.
When the family's rubber–plantation servant girl is dismissed for un... Buy or find out more →
Home
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Virago
Winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Following on from the magnificent GILEAD, HOME takes up the story of the wayward son Jack who, after decades away, edgily and uneasily, but finally, returns home. He is the pr... Buy or find out more →
Molly Fox's Birthday
$24.00 – Trade paperback / Faber
Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the longest day of the year, the pl... Buy or find out more →
The Invention Of Everything Else
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The Invention of Everything Else is a tremendously powerful and moving exploration of human loneliness and isolation, and the opposing powers of emotional and scientific imagination.
Louisa is an imaginative and curious ... Buy or find out more →
Strange Music
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Vintage
An ambition exploration of our understanding of history.
In 1837 an ailing Elizabeth Barrett is confined to bed, suffering debilitating illness. Longing for a return to health and mobility, she corresponds with friends, ... Buy or find out more →
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 →
The Wilderness
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
An extraordinary debut novel by a young writer of remarkable gifts.
It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriag... Buy or find out more →
Scottsboro
$0.00 – Paperback book / Picador
Set in the 1930s South, this resonant novel of race and class turns on the awful power of a lie Buy or find out more →
Blonde Roots
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold... Buy or find out more →
Girl In A Blue Dress
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A fictional account of the marriage of a Victorian novelist resembling Charles Dickens, narrated by his wife. A brilliant, moving novel about love, fame and destiny.
Who is Alfred Gibson? Does the public really know him ... Buy or find out more →