I read this and thought some of you might be interested.
BBC News - Orange Prize won by Madeline Miller's debut tale of heroic romance
"Debut US novelist Madeline Miller has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction with The Song of Achilles, a story of same-sex romance set in the Greek age of heroes.
"This is a more than worthy winner - original, passionate, inventive and uplifting," said Joanna Trollope, chair of judges."