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Thursday, 31 March 2011
Orange 2011: The road to wanting (Law-Yone)
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Another Orange longlister, and yet another country - this time we are in Burma and Thailand with Wendy Law-Yone's The road to Wanting . ...
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The musical Bernard the bear
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He does a pretty good job on Beethoven...
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Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Orange 2011: A visit from the goon squad (Egan)
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My seventh Orange read from the longlist (which takes me to halfway through, since I had read three titles before it was announced) is set i...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Baking from the cupboards 10
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Yes, there is a tenth baking from the cupboards, and we're still going strong. This week I finally used up the tin of pumpkin puree, th...
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Monday, 28 March 2011
Orange 2011: Jamrach's menagerie (Carol Birch)
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I have greatly enjoyed a couple of Carol Birch's novels in the last few years, which I came across because they were published by Virago...
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Saturday, 26 March 2011
Orange 2011: The memory of love (Forna)
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I'm afraid that The memory of love , my fifth Orange read since the longlist was announce, is the first that has made me stall a bit. I...
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Friday, 25 March 2011
Orange 2011: The london train (Hadley)
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My fourth Orange read of the longlist season is the first non-debut novel that I've read from the list. And it's by an author whose...
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Thursday, 24 March 2011
Orange 2011: The pleasure-seekers (Tishana Doshi)
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From Nigeria , to Canada, and now to India and Wales, this year's Orange Prize longlist has certainly had me globe-trotting. And a thir...
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Bernard the bear returns
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Bernard the bear seem to gain a lot of fans last week when he featured in his swimming gear. Owing to the absence of domestic arts again th...
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Orange 2011: Annabel (Kathleen Winter)
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My second Orange of 2011 is another debut novel and another novel dealing with an issue alien to me - Annabel by Kathleen Winter is the stor...
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