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Four authors on Orange Prize longlist

Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008

Linda Grant, Stella Duffy, Lauren Liebenberg and Jennifer Egan have all been named on the longlist for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008.

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Henry Shukman on getting sunstroke

Henry Shukman

Sunstroke – real cranium-boiling, bone-melting sunstroke – is a true ordeal. But ordeals can sometimes be fruitful.

Guapi is a little town on the Pacific coast of Colombia. It's a particularly remote and isolated part of the world.

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The Mutiny

The Mutiny

Julian Rathbone

For its British population, the India that swelters in the late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing and flirtations under the aegis of the omnipotent East India company...

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The Good Husband of Zebra Drive: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Vol 8

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Vol 8

Alexander McCall Smith

As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J...

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The Clothes on Their Backs

The Clothes on Their Backs

Linda Grant

In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous...

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The Steep Approach to Garbadale

The Steep Approach to Garbadale

Iain Banks

Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel.

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