Literary News - Award winners and Adaptations

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been voted the ‘Winner of Winners’ from 25 Years of the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Half a Yellow Sun.  Voted for by the public, the novel is set in Nigeria in the 1960s, during the Biafran War.   It is about the end of colonialism, about class and race and how love can complicate things.  This novel, and Chimamanda’s brilliant We Should All Be Feminists essay, is available to borrow from the EPHS Libraries using our click and deliver service.

There are some great book adaptations on TV at the moment, including His Dark Materials series 2 based on Philip Pullman’s outstanding trilogy, which started on BBC 1 last Sunday and Rebecca, based on the book of the same name by Daphne DuMaurier, which is currently screening on Netflix.  These novels are available to borrow from the EPHS Libraries using our click and deliver service.