Books & Reading
Celebrate the National Year of Reading - discover books to talk about
Author of the month
July - Mike Gayle
- My Legendary Girlfriend (1998)
- Mr. Commitment (1999)
- Turning Thirty (2000)
- Dinner for Two (2002)
- His 'n' Hers (2004)
- Brand New Friend (2005)
- Wish You Were Here (2007)
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008
The Orange Prize aims to reward accessible fiction written by women, and is always popular with reading groups and readers in the Borough. This year we held our first shadowing party, where local reading groups selected Rose Tremain's The Road Home as their favourite, which coincidentally was also announced as the official winner on June 4th.
The six shortlisted titles for 2008 are:
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
Lottery by Patricia Wood
Lullabies for little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
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Books
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Reading Groups
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Reviews
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