Donoghue's Room on Orange shortlist

Publication Date: Tue, 12/04/2011 - 09:30 Emma Donoghue’s Man Booker-shortlisted Room (Picador) and three debuts have made it onto the shortlist for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction. Announced this morning (11th April) at London Book Fair, the debuts are Grace Williams Says It Loud by Sceptre author Emma Henderson, The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obrecht (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) and Annabel by Canadian author Kathleen Winter (Jonathan Cape). The list is completed by Nicole Strauss’ Great House (Viking) and Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love (Bloomsbury). read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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