Fiction in June

A short post, just to say June has been a great month for fiction, including women’s fiction.

First the winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014 was announced:

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride.

My reading group will be discussing it this week. It’s a strong book so I am looking forward to their reactions.

The long- and shortlists also contained included great reads.

And last week the always-interesting Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize announced the winners for 2014. This prize ‘celebrates our best fiction writers’ and the eight writers of outstanding fiction are:

• Lolito by Ben Brooks.
• Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
• Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister
• The Dig by Cynan Jones
• Whatever Happened to Billy Parks? by Gareth R Roberts
• Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Woods
• Vanishing by Gerard Woodward
• All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

Have I made enough recommendations for you, for your holiday reading or your tbr list?

Note: my next post will be a look at Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman in the older women in fiction series.

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