Browse & Borrow | Womens Prize for Fiction

Dominicana [Women's prize for Fiction - Shortlist 2020]

Cruz, Angie

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Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes.

Girl, woman, other [Women's prize for Fiction - Shortlist 2020]

Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-

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Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980.

The mirror & the light [Paperback] [Women's prize for Fiction - Shortlist 2020]

Mantel, Hilary, 1952-Wolf Hall trilogy ; 3

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If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors.

Hamnet [Women's prize for Fiction - Winner 2020]

O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-

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Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley Street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven.

Weather : a novel [Women's prize for Fiction - Shortlist 2020]

Offill, Jenny, 1968-

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"Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized...