Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2011
The Tiger's Wife
$19.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.
'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years.' - Colum McCann (and she's only 24!).
As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising vi... Buy or find out more →
Repeat It Today With Tears
$22.99 – Paperback book / Profile
A transgressive love story by a singular new voice.
A secretive child by nature, Susanna makes a covert list of everything she knows about her absent father, determined that one day she will find him. Unable and unwillin... Buy or find out more →
The Invisible Bridge
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, and Entertainment Weekl... Buy or find out more →
Room
$19.99 – Paperback book / Picador
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world
Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too.... Buy or find out more →
Lyrics Alley
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
A lyrical and deeply moving novel by a twice Orange-listed rising star, set in pre-Independence Sudan, Egypt and post-war Britain.
With Mahmood Bey at its helm, the family can do no wrong. But when Mahmood's son, Nur - t... Buy or find out more →
Whatever You Love
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
Two police officers knock on Laura’s door. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed. When justice is slow, Laura decides to take her own revenge and begins to track down the ma... Buy or find out more →
Swimmer
$24.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love.That is, until she discovers the swimmer.
Ben is a... Buy or find out more →
A Visit From The Goon Squad
$22.95 – Paperback book / Anchor
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, trouble... Buy or find out more →
Grace Williams Says It Loud
$19.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
This isn't an ordinary love story. But then Grace isn't an ordinary girl. 'Disgusting,' said the nurse. And when no more could be done, they put her away, aged eleven. On her first day at the Briar Mental Institute, Grac... Buy or find out more →
Annabel
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Vintage
An incredibly moving first novel about a young hermaphrodite growing up in the frozen Canadian wilderness.
In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador in the far north-east of Canada, a myst... Buy or find out more →
Secret Lives Of Baba Segi's Wives
$22.99 – Paperback book / Profile
To the dismay of her overbearingly ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore a great prize, but even ... Buy or find out more →
Swamplandia!
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer K... Buy or find out more →
Road To Wanting
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
Some call it China's Wild West - a boom town on the border with Burma. In the new Chinese economy of the late 1980's, the frontier at Wanting is a magnet for outcasts and opportunists. Or the desperate - like Na Ga. To N... Buy or find out more →
The Pleasure Seekers
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Zadie Smith meets Rohinton Mistry in this sparkling debut about family, belonging and the binding power of love.
It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became the first member of t... Buy or find out more →
Birth Of Love
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
In Vienna, in 1865, Ignaz Semmelweis has been hounded into a lunatic asylum, ridiculed for his claim that doctors’ unwashed hands are the root cause of childbed fever. The deaths of thousands of mothers are on his consci... Buy or find out more →
Seas
$19.95 – Paperback book / Constable & Co Ltd
The narrator of The Seas lives in a remote and harsh seaside town. An occasional chambermaid, and granddaughter to a typesetter who floods her mind with strange words and phrases, she is awkward and brave, wayward and wi... Buy or find out more →
London Train
$36.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
The London Train" is a novel in two parts, separate but wound together around a single moment, examining in vivid detail two lives stretched between two cities. Paul lives in the Welsh countryside with his wife Elise, an... Buy or find out more →
Grace Williams Says It Loud
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
This isn't an ordinary love story. But then Grace isn't an ordinary girl. 'Disgusting,' said the nurse. And when no more could be done, they put her away, aged eleven. On her first day at the Briar Mental Institute, Grac... Buy or find out more →
The Memory Of Love
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
A major new novel by acclaimed writer Aminatta Forna: a story about friendship, about understanding, absolution and the indelible effects of the past ... and about the very nature of love.
In an African city, an elderly ... Buy or find out more →