Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist 2025

A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK, THE OBSERVER, GQ, GRAZIA, HERO, I-D, NYLONA semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian...

An extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, NESTINGintroduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction.On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision thatwill...

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning Elizabeth Strout - available for pre-order now.It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding...

All Joseph wants is to be let into Tartuffe's world. All Ettie wants is to escape it.The year is 1920. The place is a remote farmhouse in Provence, home to...

A riotously funny and deeply moving debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down. 'The word-of-mouth breakout'...

'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?' 'Funny, gripping and compassionate'Dolly Alderton'A breath of fresh air'Marian Keyes'Essential reading'Jonathan CoeNadia is an academic who's been disowned...

'I have GULPED this novel down . . . Birding gave me everything I want in a novel, including a massive, cathartic cry at the end. Achingly poignant, yet ultimately...

'Crisp, transportive, uplifting. The fresh, irreverent voice of Tibb Ingleby is sheer brilliance. I loved it!'BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRYListen. My one-time friend Maria did tell me once:...

'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN A publishing event ten years in the...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKA BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIANA 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR...

A Barack Obama summer reading pickA book of the summer for The Times, Observer, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, ELLE and Evening Standard'A thrilling debut . . . It's very smart;...

A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year...