Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun has been named the ‘Best of the Best’ by Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. In consideration of the award were Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, Rose Trembain’s the Road Home, Marilynne Robinson’s Home, Ali Smith’s How to Be Both, Tea Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna, and AM Homes’s May [ … ]