Here are ten orange-tinted books which have nothing to do with the 'Marching Season' or the Battle of the Boyne.
Oranges
By John McPhee
"How," McPhee was often asked, "did you come to write a whole book about oranges?" He just did and, in the process, produced a classic of American reporting, full - as Julian Barnes remarked - of "zest, pith, colour, fruit, sweetness and acid."
The Orange Girl
By Jostein Gaarder
Thus titled because the eponymous girl was once seen carrying a bag of oranges and occasionally wears an orange anorak. It's set in Oslo and may make you want to go there. For the readers with cheesy taste and a high gullibility threshold.
A Clockwork Orange
By Anthony Burgess
Fifteen-year-old Alex and his chums rob, rape, torture and murder - for laughs. Alex is jailed for his heinous crimes and the State undertakes to reform him. But how and at what cost? The author was not amused by the knowledge that the novel was his most famous. William Burroughs thought it funny. He would, wouldn't he.
Squeezing the Orange
By Henry Blofeld
The plummy godfather of Radio 4's Test Match Special - aka 'Blowers' - muses on life and cricket in this engaging memoir which takes us from Eton to Lords, encountering en route a pavilion full of characters, including Noel Coward and Robert Mugabe, who had "the worst halitosis it has ever been my lot to encounter."
The Orange Trees of Baghdad
By Leilah Nadit
Sub-titled 'In Search of My Lost Family', this affecting memoir - by an alumnus of Edinburgh University - conveys why many Iraqis felt the invasion of their country by America was sure to prove disastrous.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
By Jeanette Winterson
Ostensibly a novel, Winterson's debut novel, first published in 1985, is at once transparently autobiographical and wonderfully imaginative, retelling the early life of a young, gay girl brought up by in a strict Pentecostal household by her adoptive parents. An instant classic.
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison
By Piper Kerman
Sentenced to 15 months in a Connecticut jail, Kerman made the best of it by finding humour where most other inmates could only see heartbreak. It was made into a successful TV sitcom. Prisoner Cell Block H with gags.
Five Quarters of the Orange
By Joanne Harris
The third part of Harris's so-called 'food trilogy' - the previous two were Chocolat and Blackberry Wine - its narrator is a French woman reliving her difficult wartime upbringing under German occupation.
Orange Pear Apple Bear
By Emily Gravette
That rare thing, a picture book that is as appealing to babies as it is to their parents. As one reviewer said, it ought to be handed out at birth.
Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vera Hodgson, 1940-54
By Vera Hodgson and Jenny Hartley
Hodgson, who was originally from Birmingham, spent much of the World War Two in London where, when not dodging bombs, she was so fascinated by the damage they caused she took to visiting bomb sites. As the title suggests, there was dearth in those days of fresh and healthy produce. Especially recommended to those nostalgic for an era of rationing and food coupons.
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