Welcome (back) to the Warwickshire Orange Prize 2012 shadow blog! Once again, we'll be reading alongside the official Orange Prize judges, as soon as the shortlist is announced on 17th April. Along the way, we'll be discussing our reactions in this blog. We've got three meetings planned during the time (see sidebar to the left), and then we'll make our selection as to what we feel is the worthy winner of the £30,000 Orange Prize for Fiction. There's even an opportunity to travel together to London to hear readings from the Orange Prize shortlist. We all had a great time doing this last year, and this year we've got some cracking reads. If you want a headstart, check out the longlist. You may have already read some of them. The longlist was announced in March:
