modern first edition books from Firsts in Print

modern first edition books from Firsts in Print

Orange prize first editions

The 2008 Orange Prize longlist is shown below.
Longlist for the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
Anita Amirrezvani The Blood of Flowers (Headline Review) Iranian/
American (1st Novel)

Stella Duffy The Room of Lost Things (Virago) British (11th Novel)

Jennifer Egan The Keep (Abacus) American (3rd Novel)

Anne Enright The Gathering (Jonathan Cape) Irish  (4th Novel)

Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs (Virago) British (4th Novel)

Tessa Hadley The Master Bedroom (Jonathan Cape) British (3rd Novel)

Nancy Huston Fault Lines (Atlantic Books) Canadian (11th Novel)

Gail Jones Sorry Harvill (Secker) Australian (4th Novel)

Sadie Jones The Outcast (Chatto & Windus) British (1st Novel)

Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam (Virago)  South African (1st Novel)

Charlotte Mendelson When We Were Bad  (Picador) British (3rd Novel)

Deborah Moggach In The Dark (Chatto & Windus) British (16th Novel)

Anita Nair Mistress (BlackAmber) Indian (3rd  Novel)

Heather O’Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals (Quercus) Canadian (1st Novel)

Elif Shafak The Bastard of Istanbul (Viking) Turkish (7th Novel)

Dalia Sofer The Septembers of Shiraz (Picador) American (1st Novel)

Scarlett Thomas The End of Mr. Y (Canongate) British (7th Novel)

Carol Topolski Monster Love (Fig Tree) British (1st Novel)

Rose Tremain The Road Home (Chatto & Windus) British (10th Novel)

Patricia Wood Lottery (William Heinemann) American (1st Novel)


The winner will be announced on 4th June 2008.
 

click here for previous years' Orange Prize books.


Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Published: Fourth Estate, 2006

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Second novel from the author of 'Purple Hibiscus' - this set in Nigeria in the 1960's at the time of the Nigerian - Biafra war. Winner of this year's Orange Prize.

Price: £ 20.00

Half of a Yellow Sun



Arlington Park
by Rachel Cusk

Published: Faber, 2006

Fine in fine dustwrapper - the less common hardback edition - a novel set in a modern day English suburb. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Price: £ 16.00

Arlington Park


The Observations
by Jane Harris

Published: Faber, 2006

Fine in Fine dustwrapper. A debut novel which comes with much advance praise - a story of one young woman's journey from a difficult past into and even more disturbing present. Set in Scotland in 1863. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

Price: £ 14.99

The Observations


The Observations
by Jane Harris

Published: Faber, 2006

SIGNED by the author in an incredibly minimalistic way but signed nonetheless. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. A debut novel which comes with much advance praise - a story of one young woman's journey from a difficult past into and even more disturbing present. Set in Scotland in 1863. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

Price: £ 18.00

The Observations


Lullabies for Little Criminals
by Heather O'Neill

Published: Quercus, 2008

Fine card wrappers with flaps as issued. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Price: £ 14.00

Lullabies for Little Criminals


Digging to America
by Anne Tyler

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2006

Fine in fine dustwrapper. The story of two families and their adopted Korean babies. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Price: £ 16.99

Digging to America

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