Women's Prize
for Fiction 2024
Women's Prize
for Fiction 2024
for Fiction 2024
Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
Discover more about this year's prize.
The 2024 shortlist
The 2024 shortlist
The Wren, the Wren
The Wren, the Wren
'A beautiful, powerful meditation on generational trauma and love. Anne's writing is utterly unparalleled, and I'm so jealous that I did not write this incredible book.' – Laura Dockrill
Brotherless Night
Brotherless Night
'A powerful book that has the intimacy of memoir, the range and ambition of an epic, and tells a truly unforgettable story about the Sri Lankan civil war.' – Ayọb̀ ámi Adébáyọ̀
Restless Dolly Maunder
Restless Dolly Maunder
'A historical adventure set in Australia. It's about a woman carving her place in the world, and it's very funny.' – Indira Varma
Enter Ghost
Enter Ghost
'The story of Sonia, a British Palestinian actor, who gets involved in a production of Hamlet on the West Bank. It's a gorgeously written, very nuanced, deeply layered book, and I absolutely loved it.' – Monica Ali
Soldier Sailor
Soldier Sailor
'A full-bodied, remorseless, visceral, deep dive into the maternal mind. It is ultimately a love story between Soldier, the mother, and Sailor, the son.' – Anna Whitehouse
River East, River West
River East, River West
'Set in Shanghai in the mid-2000s. It's a very funny book. It's often heartbreaking, and it's a totally riveting read.' – Monica Ali
The 2024 longlist
Western Lane
'One of those exquisite books in which not one word is wasted. It is beautifully written.' - Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
The Wren, the Wren
'A psychologically astute examination of family dynamics and the nature of memory. Enright’s prose is gorgeous and evocative and scalpel sharp.' – Monica Ali
The Maiden
'A confident historical thriller with deep-dive, hot-blooded characters who you are cheerleading on. Cinematic. Gripping. Tense; A total page-turner. Poetic and captivating. Foster is a painter and The Maiden is a work of art.' - Laura Dockrill
Brotherless Night
'Visceral, historical, emotional. It is 300 pages of must-read prose.' - Anna Whitehouse
Restless Dolly Maunder
'[It] follows the life of Dolly, who really is restless. It begins in the 1880s in rural Australia, and it follows Dolly’s ambitions to live a bigger life than the one she's been given.' - Indira Varma
Enter Ghost
'How can a production of Hamlet in the West Bank resonate with the residents’ existential issues? Enter Ghost is a beautiful, profound meditation on the role of art in our society and our lives.' - Monica Ali
Soldier Sailor
'A beautiful and harrowing novel about what it can feel like to be a first-time mother' - Indira Varma
The Blue, Beautiful World
'Quite literally takes a knife to climate change and opens up what humanity is going to look like in the future.' - Anna Whitehouse
Nightbloom
'Moves like a love story between childhood, female friendship and buried truth; painful, intimate and beautifully written with characters who you care for. A jewel of a book.' - Laura Dockrill
Ordinary Human Failings
''The insightful story of a family and the journalist who is trying to force a grisly murder tale out of them.' - Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
River East, River West
'Set in Shanghai in the 2000s, it's a novel about reinvention. It’s original, it's funny, and it's sometimes heartbreaking as well' - Monica Ali
A Trace of Sun
'A beautiful and heartbreaking story told over the passage of time, exploring what it means to be a woman and mother and what the people in your life expect, want and need from you.' – Laura Dockrill
And Then She Fell
'A deep dive into the shattered mind of a postpartum woman. I loved it' – Anna Whitehouse
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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
'An expansive novel that spans a century, obscuring and illuminating the trickster at its heart.' – Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
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Not yet available in audio
Hangman
'Binyam reinvents the novel of return and does so with a mordant wit and a sense of playfulness, that keeps you hooked right until the very end.' – Monica Ali
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In Defence of the Act
'A hilarious, poignant and uplifting essay on the benefits of suicide (or so you would believe).' – Indira Varma
Not yet available in audio
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Demon Copperhead
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
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Piranesi
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Hamnet
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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
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Home Fire
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The Power
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The Glorious Heresies
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How to Be Both
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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
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May We Be Forgiven
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The Lacuna
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Home
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The Road Home
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Small Island
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Bel Canto
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ARTICLE
The 2022 Discoveries Winner
Not even a year after winning the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction Discoveries programme Sui Annukka released her novella,
The Mother Sun. Sui submitted the start of a novel as her entry to the development programme before taking advantage of the courses and workshops made available through Audible, Curtis Brown Literary Agency, and the Curtis Brown Creative writing school to create a new story for Audible.
In this article Sui Annukka describes her journey to winning the Discoveries Award and the inspiration for her though provoking and evocative novel The Mother Sun.
Read the article here >
In this article Sui Annukka describes her journey to winning the Discoveries Award and the inspiration for her though provoking and evocative novel The Mother Sun.
Read the article here >