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The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was awarded on 04 June at London’s Royal Festival Hall to Rose Tremain for her novel, The Road Home (Call No.: English TRE). The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is open to only female authors and the books need to be published in English. The award comes with £30,000 in prize money.

The Road Home is a story about Lev, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, who tries to make his way to Britain. In between falling in and out of love, he sleeps in the streets, works in a Gordon Ramsay-style restaurant and picks asparagus in East Anglia.

The other shortlisted books are:

• Charlotte Mendelson’s When We Were Bad (Call No.: English MEN)
• Sadie Jones’ The Outcast (Call No.: English JON)
• Nancy Huston’s Fault Lines (Call No.: English HUS)
• Heather O’Neill’s Lullabies for Little Criminals (Call No.: English ONE)
• Patricia Wood’s Lottery (Call No.: English WOO)

(via The Guardian | Books)

Contributed by Isaak Kwok, Associate Librarian, Adult and Young People’s Services, Public Library Service

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