Bedside Reading Women's Prize for Fiction - Shortlist
Welcome to Season 7 !!!!! I am so excited to launch this new season with an episode which is all about the Women's Prize shortlist.
I'm delighted to welcome book-tuber Sarah Cubitt to Bedside Reading. Sarah has a wonderful YouTube book channel called Your True Shelf. https://www.youtube.com/c/yourtrueshelf
Sarah and I are talking about the 6 books which have made this year's Women's Prize shortlist. The prize winner is announced on June 13th so if you are listening today, 4th June when it comes out you have nine days to get your way through the shortlist or perhaps to pick one of the ones that we discuss to read before the prize is announced and see if we were right in terms of the book that we would both most like to win. Interestingly we both picked the same one! Are we in line with the judges? who knows, we might need to wait to find out. It's been a real joy talking to Sarah and it's been really good fun to read books which have come off a shortlist and really to be thinking about their merits compared one with another.
The books on the shortlist are:
Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
You can buy them all (and support my favourite bookshop Scarthin Books) here https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scarthinbooks
Sarah also recommended https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/09/stay-with-me-by-ayobami-adebayo-review and https://www.thebibliophilegirluk.com/2018/05/big-bones-by-laura-dockrill/ both written by judges for this year's prize.