Orange prize shortlist 2012

The Orange Prize shortlist for fiction came out yesterday. Here is the shortlist:

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

impac award shortlist 2012

The short listed titles, announced by The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Andrew Montague, Patron of the Award, in Dublin today are:

1. Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer (British / Australian). Scribe Publications (First Novel)
2. The Matter with Morris by David Bergen (Canadian). Harper Collins, Canadva
3. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (American) Alfred A. Knopf
4. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Born in Britain, raised in Sierra Leone) Bloomsbury Publishing
5. Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor (British) Bloomsbury
6. Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (American) Atlantic Monthly Press (First novel)
7. Landed by Tim Pears (British) William Heinemann
8. Limassol by Yishai Sarid (Israeli) translated from Hebrew by Barbara Harshav Europa Editions
9. The Eternal Son by Cristovão Tezza, (Brazilian) translated from Portuguese by Alison Entrekin, Scribe Publications
10. Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin (American) Faber & Faber

Eileen Battersby had a great article about the shortlist last Thursday here is the link http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0412/1224314641774.html

The Cove by Ron Rash

Eileen Battersby has a very positive review of The Cove in today's Irish Times: have a look. It reminded us in VB of this great novel set in the south about Laurel and Hank an outcasted family running a farm in hills during World War 1. We agree with Eileen Battersby that The Cove is "a southern tragedy thats right on the money"