From Big Green Bookshop:
One of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, the BAILEYS Women’s Prize for Fiction – previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction – celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world.
The Longlist has been announced, and it’s superb, including titles by Margaret Atwood, Eimear McBride and Linda Grant. You can see the whole list
HERE.
Such is the quality of the list, once again, we’re going to do the BAILEYS BOOK CHALLENGE.
The challenge is to read as many, if not all of the shortlisted titles, before the winner is announced in June.
Here's how it's going to work;
As soon as the shortlist is announced on Monday April 3rd, we’ll order copies of each of the books, which we’ll hopefully get by Wednesday April 5th.
We'll open until 7pm on that Wednesday so if you like, you can come along to say hello, take home one or more of the titles, and enjoy some rather lovely wine. Obviously, you don't have to come along on the Wednesday, but,
Over the next couple of months the members of the Book Club will make a concerted effort to read as many of the six shortlisted books as they can.
The group will meet again on Tuesday June 6th, the evening before the winner is announced to discuss each of the books. After a heated debate, and a glass or two of wine, the group will vote for whom they think should win. We'll then announce our findings and wait with baited breath for the official announcement the following day.
We realise that the cost of the shortlist might be quite a lot, especially if there are hardbacks on it, and for us, the most important thing is that people can join in. So we’ve come up with a few solutions;
•For a one off payment of £25, we will be a lending library, where you can borrow each of the books for a week or so each. You can also keep your favourite book after the ceremony.
•We will offer a discount of 20% on the shortlist for Book Group members.
•A group of you could share the cost, so for example 3 of you could buy 2 books each.
However you decide to do this, we will do everything we can to make the books accessible to you. The important thing is that you're able to join in.
It's a bit of a challenge, but if you think you're up for it, come along.
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