Orange Broadband Prize Shortlist Announced

Furthermore to my last post, the Orange Broadband Prize has been announced and The Observations is on it (phew - my review is still relevent).

The list is:-

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
Rachel Cusk - Arlington Park
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
Xiaolu Guo - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Jane Harris - The Observations
Anne Tyler - Digging to America

The popular momentum must be with Adichie, especially after she took the Richard & Judy laurels (and the enormous increase in sales this entails), whilst I think it is probably unlikely that Desai will do the double after her Booker win last year. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary separates many readers, and would probably split a panel. I didn't like The Observations, so I won't back that. Sooooo... Rachel Cusk as the quiet outsider that might just shave an unlikely win.

Buy any of the shortlist from amazon...