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By MATTHEWS, Philip Kate Mosse talks to PHILIP MATTHEWS about good plots and inspiration. . Kate Mosse. No, not Kate Moss. Not the supermodel most famous for coke- snorting snapshots and cavorting with rock star Pete Doherty.

Rose Tremain has won Britain's Orange Broadband Prize for women's fiction for The Road Home, her novel about a Polish immigrant's move to England.

By ALEXA BARACAIA A DEBUT novel by a former mental health patient about life in a London psychiatric hospital has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Poppy Shakespeare, by Clare Allen, has been hailed as the British version of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

LONDON (Reuters) - British authors Ali Smith and Zadie Smith are among the six finalists selected for this year's prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction, organizers said on Wednesday.