Portfolio Categories: Baileys Women’s (formerly Orange) Prize for Fiction
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2010 Winner: The heartbreaking story of a man’s search for safety, of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born […]
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The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obrecht
2011 Winner: As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising villagers, the body of her grandfather turns up in a hospital in the middle of nowhere. She […]
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
2012 Winner: Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, […]
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May We Be Forgiven by A M Homes
2013 Winner: This is a darkly comic look at 21st century domestic life – at individual lives spiralling out of control, bound together by family and history. The cast of […]
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A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
2014 Winner: This incredible debut novel tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by […]