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Mr W and I are going away for a few days on Saturday, not quite a week, and as we've had such lovely weather all of this week, I am anti...

I'm still waiting for my copy of The night circus to arrive, but I've read the other 19 longlisted titles and as we're off for a...

I approached The blue book with no little trepidation, as I thought it was probably among the most literary of the orange longlist. I have ...

I must have read Ann Patchett's previous Orange prizewinner Bel Canto several years ago. And I was impressed. The story was unsettling, ...

I remember a great deal of publicity when Tides of war came out last year, the book itself didn't really interest me as it is a histori...

So the last 24 hours have been both sociable and literary. Well, sort of. Last night I scrambled home from work to go and listen to Patrick...

So, I haven't posted any pictures of the book covers from the Orange List mainly because I'm being lazy and getting on with reading ...

I got a bit confused about Island of Wings as I was picking up a number of reservations at the library, a mix of Orange titles and non Orang...

Song of Achilles was one of the Orange titles that I was dreading having to read most. The world of classical mythology is something that I ...

This is what I read the Orange longlist for. Discovering an excellent piece of writing that I would not have picked up otherwise. Foreign ...