Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives Harper Collins, 2010 (Looking for a swallow rather than a full glass? ORANGE Squirt below.) Countless contemporary novels have taken the landscape of the monogamous marriage and its secrets as their subject, so it’s hardly surprising that a polygamous marriage, like
Nicole Krauss’ Great House W.W. Norton & Company, 2010 (Looking for a swallow rather than a full glass? ORANGE Squirt below.) Readers Wanted: Must be comfortable travelling between Oxford, London, New York, Jerusalem, Nuremberg and Santiago. Must be well-versed in a variety of artistic forms or naturally curious about works
Kathleen Winter's Annabel House of Anansi, 2010 (Looking for a swallow rather than a full glass? ORANGE Squirt below.) Like Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Kate Grenville’s The Secret River, it’s impossible to imagine Kathleen Winter’s Annabel being set anywhere other than the landscape therein. “In Croyden Harbour human life came
Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. (Looking for a swallow rather than a full glass? ORANGE Squirt below.) Loving an excerpt as much as I loved “The Dredgeman’s Revelation” brings a sense of trepidation alongside excitement when approaching the longer work. Would Swamplandia! leave me with the same pressing desire
One of my favourite times of the reading year! Last year I posted about Orange Prize longlisted works on Mondays and Thursdays throughout Orange Prize Season, but this year I will be selecting specific weeks that will focus on All-Things-Orange. I can hardly wait, though I still need to finish
