READERS are being urged to visit local libraries and have a say in this year's Orange Prize for Fiction.
They can win a mobile telephone and copies of the shortlisted books by writing a review of one of these books using cards available at every Bury branch.
Book reviews will be posted on a website at www.orangeprize.co.uk to complement those written by Orange's celebrity reviewers.
Anyone who doesn't want to write a review could still win a prize by using the card to enter a star rating for one of the books.
The shortlisted authors are:
Margaret Atwood, "Oryx and Crake" (Bloomsbury)
Shirley Hazzard, "The Great Fire" (Virago)
Andrea Levy, "Small Island" (Review)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Purple Hibiscus" (Fourth Estate)
Gillian Slovo, "Ice Road" (Little, Brown)
Rose Tremain, "The Colour" (Chatto and Windus).
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