Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 Longlist
This Is How
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
From the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Carry Me Down comes a novel of remarkable power and resonance.
When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a r... Buy or find out more →
The Rehearsal
$29.99 – Paperback book / Granta
A dazzlingly assured and bold novel revolving around a school sex scandal ...
A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity s... Buy or find out more →
The Lacuna
$35.00$13.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
The first novel in ten years from Barbara Kingsolver, author of the international bestseller, The Poisonwood Bible.
'You had better write all this in your notebook, she said, the story of what happened to us in Mexico. S... Buy or find out more →
The Wilding
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
A powerful novel of family secrets, violent passions and love - set in 17th century England.
In her second novel, Maria McCann returns to the 17th century England, where life is struggling to return to normal after the h... Buy or find out more →
The Still Point
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Portobello
At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for d... Buy or find out more →
A Gate At The Stairs
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
In her dazzling new novel - her first in over a decade - Laurie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of modern America.
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle east, twenty-year-old Tassie K... Buy or find out more →
Black Mamba Boy
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds himself alone in the world.
Jama is forced home to his native Somalia... Buy or find out more →
Black Water Rising
$32.99 – Paperback book / Serpents Tail
In the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke delivers an electrifying thriller that you won't soon forget!
Jay Porter is not the lawyer he set out to be, but he's long since made peace with the American ... Buy or find out more →
The Long Song
$32.99 – Hardcover book / Headline
You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, ... Buy or find out more →
Secret Son
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past.
Raised by his mother in a one room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has alway... Buy or find out more →
Wolf Hall
$32.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into t... Buy or find out more →
The Way Things Look To Me
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Yasmin is special. An autistic teenager with high-performing Asperger's, she has near magical abilities with regard to memory and mathematics but little understanding of how she has affected her older brother and sister,... Buy or find out more →
Savage Lands
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
It is 1704 and, while the Sun King Louis XIV rules France from the splendour of Versailles, Louisiana, the new and vast colony named in his honour, is home to fewer than two hundred souls. When a demand is sent requestin... Buy or find out more →
The Very Thought Of You
$22.00 – Paperback book / Oneworld Pubn
England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna S... Buy or find out more →
The Little Stranger
$24.00$11.95 – Paperback book / Little Brown
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, ... Buy or find out more →
Hearts and Minds
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, th... Buy or find out more →
Small Wars
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
What happens when everything a man believes in – the army, his country, his marriage – begins to crumble…
Hal Treherne is a young and dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, h... Buy or find out more →
The Twisted Heart
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Canongate
Kit, a work-obsessed literature student, decides on a whim to go to a dance class. And for a while it looks like Joe, the shadowy figure she meets there, may tempt her to put her books aside and live a little.
But as Joe... Buy or find out more →