Here we go, the first of the year's long lists, or perhaps the second after the Costas, or is it the third after the Nibbies?
I do tend to pay attention to the Orange though, now the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
So here's the 20.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun (yessssssssss)
Clare Allan Poppy Shakespeare (something has been putting me off this, not sure what)
Rachel Cusk Arlington Park (don't know anything about this)
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss (oh dear, my Booker failure and it won, might try again)
Patricia Ferguson Peripheral Vision (I haven't read any PF since Indefinite Nights if it's the same PF)
Margaret Forster Over (I like MF, should search this one out)
Nell Freudenberger The Dissident (yesssssss)
Rebecca Gowers When to Walk (read the first 30 pages, will go back to it)
Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (never heard of)
Jane Harris The Observations (seen but not read, looks good)
M J Hyland Carry Me Down (yessssssss)
Lori Lansens The Girls (seen around, picked up, put down)
Lisa Moore Alligator (heard of but not read, ? Canadian)
Catherine O’Flynn What Was Lost (Susan says this is good)
Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves (yesssssss)
Deborah Robertson Careless (all these one word titles, is this the way ahead?)
Rachel Seiffert Afterwards (and another one)
Jane Smiley Ten Days in the Hills (something has been putting me off this one too, but as it's Jane will try harder)
Anne Tyler Digging to America (wanting to read, waiting for paperback)
Melanie Wallace The Housekeeper ( no idea about this)
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