Hurrah! #WomensPrizeforFiction #DemonCopperhead
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/14/barbara-kingsolver-wins-the-womens-prize-for-fiction-for-second-time
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Good timing! The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff is a Kindle Daily Deal in the UK today. I'm looking forward to reading it as I haven't heard that much about it in discussions of the Women's Prize list yet, even though the premise is so interesting. A woman is believed to have killed her absent husband and finds that this reputation is useful...until other women start asking for her help

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I'm looking forward to reading Homesick by Jennifer Croft, the book that most obviously questions the difference between fiction and non-fiction as it was originally published as a memoir. I haven't heard great things about it, but I couldn't resist picking it up. It has an interesting origin story - possibly more interesting than the book itself will be? Time will tell

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There are a lot of books drawn from personal experiences on the #womensprizeforfiction longlist this year. Memphis and Wandering Souls were also interesting to read together. Both authors have a family story that needed to be told, and chose to tell them in very different ways.

Personally, I loved Wandering Souls. I wish there had been 100 more pages of it as it gripped me in the final part.

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Reading books from a prize list is a weird thing, because you're drawing parallels between books that were never intended to be compared.

Having said that, reading I'm a Fan and Trespasses close together was really interesting to me. Different times, different contexts, but I felt like the women at the heart of the book not only did similar things but felt and expressed similar things

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So far I've read Wandering Souls, I'm a Fan, Trespasses, Glory, and Children of Paradise. I've just started Memphis and Demon Copperhead.

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Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova is now also 99p on Kindle in the UK #fiction #ebook #womensprizeforfiction #currentlyreading #kindle

I've heard good things, including that you don't need to be a film person to enjoy it which I'm hoping will be true for me

Women's Prize for Fiction Announcing the 2023 Women's Prize longlist! - Women's Prize for Fiction https://womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/features/features/news/announcing-the-2023-womens-prize-longlist

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27 years after the launch of the #WomensPrizeForFiction, #WomensPrizeForNonfiction will be introduced in 2024. Only 26.5% of non-fiction reviews in UK newspapers was allocated to female writers, 35.5% of non-fiction prizes over the past 10 years was awarded female writers, and the #GenderPayGap among writers has increased from 33.3% to 35.7%. There are plenty of patterns to disrupt. #FeministFriday #representation #GenderPayGap #nonfiction #WomensPrizeForFiction #WomensPrizeForNonfictio