How prize that used to be Orange was saved – and rebranded
Now the Women's Prize for Fiction has been launched, Kate Mosse tells how an award so important to writers and the industry was savedOrange, a word that has no rhyme, has become the literary prize that...
View Article2013: the year ahead in books
From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by RS Thomas and WG Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real...
View ArticleHilary Mantel faces six newcomers in contest for women's fiction prize
Previous Orange Prize winners Zadie Smith and Barbara Kingsolver also on list of 20 nomineesAmong the contenders for the leading prize for fiction written by women is a bestselling thriller and a...
View ArticleWomen's prize for fiction 2013 longlist
The women's prize for fiction features books that tell of a Harvard alumni reunion, modern Londoners, pre-marriage wobbles and the life of Thomas Cromwell. Discover the stories and read reviews here
View ArticleWomen's prize for fiction 2013: longlist offers Hilary Mantel stiff competition
Mantel's all-conquering Bring Up the Bodies faces challenges from Barbara Kingsolver, Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson and AM Homes for the award formerly known as the Orange prizeThey did it. It's difficult...
View ArticleGone Girl: what makes Gillian Flynn's psychological thriller so popular?
A tale of marital meltdown has Hollywood hot under the collar and is up for its first literary award – and deservedly soIt's a pretty impressive comeback: less than five years after the financial...
View ArticleWomen's prize for fiction reveals 'staggeringly strong' shortlist
Renamed Orange prize finalists led by Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Barbara KingsolverOne pundit called it a "staggeringly strong" shortlist – and who would argue given that the contenders for the...
View ArticleWomen's prize shortlist: Hilary Mantel issue looms large for judges
Judges face a tricky decision with the double award-winning Bring Up the Bodies author among finalistsAt 20 titles, the Women's prize longlist casts its net wide. The final half-dozen, by contrast,...
View ArticleZadie Smith gains third literary honour this week
Ondaatje prize shortlisting follows Women's prize and Best Young Novelists salutesFresh from being named one of Britain's best young novelists, and from making the final cut for the Women's prize for...
View ArticleWere the Women's prize for fiction judges right to shortlist Hilary Mantel?
Would it have been fairer to give someone else a chance, or is the quality of the literature paramount?Paradoxically, the judges of the 2013 Women's prize for fiction have been brave in choosing a...
View ArticleHilary Mantel joins 'Time 100' ranking of world's most influential people
Wolf Hall author one of only two fiction writers on celebrated list, alongside world leaders and megastarsHilary Mantel sits alongside the likes of Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi and Kim Jong Un as one...
View ArticleMiranda Richardson: 'I hate our sneering attitude to success'
Miranda Richardson is one of Britain's leading actors, and this year is chair of judges for the Women's prize for fiction. On one thing she is clear: leave Hilary Mantel alone, she's brilliantMiranda...
View ArticleKate Mosse on the Baileys women's prize for fiction: 'women's creativity...
The founder of the groundbreaking literary award says it 'sells books like no other prize' and won't be stopping any time soon. This year it has a new sponsor – and an incredibly strong shortlistShe...
View ArticleBaileys all round at Women's Prize for fiction
Cream liqueur replaces Orange as official sponsor of literary award, with three-year partnership starting in 2014Baileys, the creamy liqueur aimed squarely at the female market, has been chosen as the...
View ArticleWomen's prize for fiction: Who will win?
Who do you think should win the Women's prize for fiction 2013? Could it be another win for Hilary Mantel, or will Zadie Smith triumph?Tonight, the winner of the Women's prize for fiction - formerly...
View ArticleAM Homes wins women's prize for fiction
US author wins with May We Be Forgiven, beating bookmakers' favourite Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelAn often breathtakingly dark and crazy satire on modern American life caused a literary upset...
View ArticleWomen's prize for fiction: a darkly comic and addictively readable winner
May We Be Forgiven, AM Homes's sardonic and tender novel, sees off the competition on a love-them-or-hate-them listIt's hard to imagine AM Homes, whose fiction mines a blackly comic seam of horror and...
View ArticleAM Homes, winner of the women's prize for fiction, talks to Jeanette...
Jeanette Winterson interviews AM Homes, whose satirical novel May We Be Forgiven won the 2013 women's prize for fictionJeanette WintersonLisa AllardiceRichard Sprenger
View ArticleZoo Story, by AM Homes
A new short story from the winner of the 2013 women's prize for fictionThe zebra came to us first. "It's my eyes," she said one afternoon as Charlotte and I made our rounds. "My eyes are drooping....
View ArticleGender balancing the books | Alex Clark
We counted the numbers of male and female reviewers and authors under review in the major UK books sections for a month in 2012 and again for a month this year. Alex Clark reflects on why the review...
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