The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring fiction by women. The Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world. The 2022 longlist was announced recently, with the winner being announced on the 15th June.
Take a look at the list here to find out more about individual books and how you can get involved.
Please see our display in the library for new fiction titles added to stock for Autumn. Why not pick up a good book to curl up by the fire with?
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Katie Fforde is a popular best-selling author of modern day romance books. She believes that falling in love is the best thing in the world, and wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories.
Katie first started writing when her mother gave her a writing kit for Christmas, and once she started she just couldn’t stop. She has now written 28 novels. Her first, Living Dangerously, was published in 1995 and her most recent, A Springtime Affair, was published in paperback in January this year.
Each of Katie’s books explores a different profession or background and her research has helped her to bring these to life. She has been a porter in an auction house, tried her hand at pottery, refurbished furniture, delved behind the scenes of a dating website, and has even been on a Ray Mears survival course.
Katie has kindly answered a few questions for us about books that have entertained and inspired her and her work as an author. Read the interview here.
Read more about Katie, her love of writing and her career on her website and blog or follow her on Twitter or Facebook.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction celebrates the very best full length fiction written by women throughout the world.
Read more about the prize and see the list of shortlisted books here
First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize, seeks to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers. The prize is unique in that it accepts entries published in the UK by writers of colour. These include (and not limited to) fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels, poetry, children’s books, YA, teen and all other genres. The prize is also open to self-published writers.
Read more about the prize and see the 2020 longlist here
This year’s longlist of sixteen novels honours both new and well-established writers and a range of genres.
See more details and the full list here
