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about the Prize
Research
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Management Committee regularly instigates research projects.
These have included exploring the relationship between book choice and gender by researching how men and women choose books to read and looked at the novels which have impacted most on women’s and men’s lives through Women's Watershed Fiction in conjunction with Woman's Hour and Men's Milestone Fiction.
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research available to explore or download
Men's Milestone Fiction (2006)
Read about the novels that changed men's lives.The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk
(link opens in a new window)Women's Watershed Fiction (2004)
Visit BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour website to find out which books listeners chose and listen to the Women's Watershed Fiction broadcasts.http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour
(link opens in new window)Essential Bookshelf (2004)
The British public's most cherished novelswww.guardian.co.uk
(link opens in a new window)Women and Reading (2003)
How women’s reading habits develop as they grow older.download research
Reading for Pleasure (2002)
How much time to people spend doing it? Where do they do it? And how much influence does your partner have over what you read?Orange Futures (2002)
an initiative to identify and promote the work of 21 young women novelistswww.prnewswire.co.uk
(link opens in new window)The Male Jury (2001)
Which books did the male jury who shadowed the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction judges pick for their shortlist? How did their ways of choosing differ from the main panel's?
Women writers fail to seduce male readers (2000)
Women still have to work twice as hard as men to get their books read by the opposite sex. And men won't read books by men if they look like they're aimed at a female audience.
