Browsing the blog archives for the day Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

The Orange Prize Shortlist 2009

You wait for a week for a post, then two come along at once. Behold! It’s the Orange Prize Shortlist!
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
‘Choosing just six was far harder than I had imagined, [...]

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April 21, 2009 by Kirsty in prizes
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Susan Boyle and the Pressure of Beauty

My blogging has been shamefully lax recently, for which I apologise. In my defence, I had an essay to hand in yesterday and it was a bit ‘all-hands-on-deck’ for the last week there. Still, it’s done, and I’m happy with it, and it’s handed in. Other than the small point of now having a 15,000 [...]

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April 21, 2009 by Kirsty in feminism, news & media
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