What you told Breakfast reading should be about enjoyment, irrespective of whether the novel is by a certain sex author, or whether it is short-listed for some literary award Mike Chilvers, Norfolk Read more viewers' comments on our Your Say page

She told Breakfast she believes that sexism is alive and well in the publishing business.

"There's still an assumption that the heavy hitter, the truly serious writers who write the great books are men.

"Meanwhile women, who also buy most of the books are keeping the industry afloat because they're writing the books that women buy.

"There's still taint of patronisation about womens' writers."

The Orange Prize for Fiction is awarded each year for the best novel written in English by a woman.

We Need to Talk about Kevin is written from the perspective of a mother, who's trying to work out why her son has killed seven of his high-school class-mates.

She looks at their relationship - and whether she was to blame.

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