The Man Booker Prize 2012  shortlist was announced on 11th September:

Tan Twan Eng                   The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon Books)

Deborah Levy                    Swimming Home (And Other Stories / Faber & Faber)

Hilary Mantel                    Bring up the Bodies (Fourth Estate)

Alison Moore                     The Lighthouse (Salt)

Will Self                              Umbrella (Bloomsbury)

Jeet Thayil                          Narcopolis (Faber & Faber)

The winning book will be announced on 16th October. The race is on to read these books before then. Ambitious? Definitely, considering the packed schedule at Wellington College but why not try reading one or two which particularly appeal to you. Join the discussion in the media and with your friends.

Keep up with the book talk:

• https://twitter.com/manbookerprize    (@ManBookerPrize)
• You tube channel
• facebook page

If you would like to read one of the books immediately come to the Library and we can buy it on the kindle for you.

 

“The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is awarded annually to the best work of contemporary fiction in translation. The prize celebrates an exceptional work of fiction by a living author which has been translated into English from any other language and published in the UK. The prize uniquely acknowledges both the writer and translator equally.” (Book Trust)

Read this Passport to the shortlist and recommend  for purchase any you would like to read.

 

Orange Prize Shortlist 2012

The UK’s only annual award for fiction written by women announced the shortlist today.

Esi Edugyan	Half Blood Blues	Serpent’s Tail	Canadian	2nd Novel
Anne Enright	The Forgotten	Waltz Jonathan Cape	Irish	5th Novel
Georgina Harding	Painter of Silence	Bloomsbury	British	3rd Novel
Madeline Miller	The Song of Achilles	Bloomsbury	American	1st Novel
Cynthia Ozick	Foreign Bodies	Atlantic Books	American	7th Novel
Ann Patchett	State of Wonder	Bloomsbury	American	6th Novel

Ann Patchett,  won the Orange Prize for Fiction ten years ago for Bel Canto (2002). Bel Canto is a fantastic book – thoroughly recommended read.