Difference between revisions of "Orange Prize for Fiction 2012"
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|author=Stella Tillyard | |author=Stella Tillyard | ||
|title=Tides of War | |title=Tides of War | ||
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|genre=Literary Fiction | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
| − | |summary= | + | |summary= When a scholarly historian turns a hand to fiction, complications can follow. Sometimes the result is a dry work of proud, thinly disguised research, where all discerned information is hurled at the page. Sometimes the demonstrated research levels are just right, but the characterisation is more reminiscent of cardboard cut outs than real people. However, if the historian is [[:Category:Stella Tillyard|Stella Tillyard]], cited as being phenomenally gifted by none other than Simon Schama, there's no need for concern. ''Tides of War'' is an engrossing, sweeping epic of a novel. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183179</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183179</amazonuk> | ||
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Revision as of 09:17, 28 March 2012
The Shortlist will be announced on 17 April with the awards ceremony on 30 May.
Longlist
