Britta Böhler | Women's Prize for Fiction: Reviews #1 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Let’s chat about Glory & Stone Blind, both longlisted for the Women’s Prize
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Reviewed books:
NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58537582-glory
Natalie Hynes, Stone Blind (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/60445291-stone-blind

Longlisted books in alphabetical order:
1 NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58537582-glory
Zimbabwe / historical fiction

2 Jennifer Croft, Homesick (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/62002887-homesick
USA / debut

3 Jacqueline Crooks, Fire Rush (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/61131217-fire-rush
UK (Jamaica-born) / debut / historical fiction

4 Camilla Grudova, Children of Paradise (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/60450976-children-of-paradise
Canada & Scotland / debut

5 Natalie Hynes, Stone Blind (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/60445291-stone-blind
UK / Retelling

6 Louise Kennedy, Trespasses (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/60861109-trespasses
UK (Northern Ireland) / debut / historical fiction

7 Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead (2922): goodreads.com/book/show/60885525-demon-copperhead
USA

8 Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/61420237-cursed-bread
UK (Wales) / historical fiction

9 Elizabeth McKenzie, The Dog of the North (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/74793863-the-dog-of-the-north
USA

10 Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies (): goodreads.com/book/show/60102361-black-butterflies
UK / debut / historical fiction

11 Maggie O’Farrell, The Marriage Portrait (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/60353768-the-marriage-portrait
UK (Northern Ireland) / historical fiction

12 Sheena Patel, I’m a Fan (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/60151826-i-m-a-fan
UK / debut

13 Laline Paull, Pod (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/60713790-pod
UK / ‘fantasy’

14 Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/60741794-wandering-souls
UK (Paris-born) / debut / historical fiction

15 Parini Shroff, Bandit Queens (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/61065982-the-bandit-queens
USA / debut / mystery
Jenni King’s video: youtube.com/watch?v=7cVK2-IkqBE

16 Tara M. Stringfellow, Memphis (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59589513-memphis
USA / debut
The stupid reaction-thing: youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=abGz0B_zfbY

Shortlist: 26 April
Winner: 14 June

Women’s Prize Website: womensprizeforfiction.co.uk

Connect with me:
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler

The name of the channel (‘The Second Shelf’) was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's book, 'The Second Sex'. And it was the title of an article by Meg Wolitzer in the New York Times: nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1

I also wrote some books:
Fiction: De juiste houding (2021) / only available in Dutch: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php

Nonfiction: De goede advocaat (2017) / nonfiction / only available in Dutch: http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

Fiction: The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
In the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Danish, Greek, Hebrew and Turkish

Nonfiction: Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/crisis-in-de-rechtstaat/

Nonfiction: De zwerftocht van een leider (2000) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/de-zwerftocht-van-een-leider/

Crime fiction, as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt)
The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW

also available in German:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt

and in Dutch:
- Heldhaftig (2012)
- Vastberaden (2014)
- Barmhartig (2016)
https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/auteur/britta-bolt/