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News – Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Longlist Announced

By Novelicious

Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2015

The longlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction – one of the most prestigious and high-profile awards for women – was announced today, featuring five debut novelists and some strong Baileys Prize veterans.

This year’s panel of judges – chaired Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti – has read a total of 165 entries, which has been whittled down to a longlist of 20 novels, representing the best of international fiction written by women between 1 April 2014 and 31 March 2015.

Three authors on the list have been longlisted for the Prize before and a further eight authors have been previously shortlisted, two of those – including The Paying Guests author Sarah Waters – twice. Debuts, meanwhile, include the Costa-winning Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey, narrated by an elderly woman with dementia, and The Bees by Laline Paull, which is a dystopia set in a beehive.


As the judges skillfully pare the list of 20 down to six ahead of the winner’s announcement of June 3, we’d love to know what you think of the longlist. Have you read any of the books? Do you agree with the judges? Are there any notable absences? Let us know in the comments!

Rachel Cusk – Outline

Lissa Evans – Crooked Heart

Patricia Ferguson – Aren’t We Sisters?

Xiaolu Guo – I Am China

Samantha Harvey – Dear Thief

Emma Healey – Elizabeth is Missing

Emily St. John Mandel – Station Eleven

Grace McCleen – The Offering

Sandra Newman – The Country of Ice Cream Star

Heather O’Neil – The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

Laline Paull – The Bees

Marie Phillips – The Table of Less Valued Knights

Rachel Seiffert – The Walk Home

Kamila Shamsie – A God in Every Stone

Ali Smith – How to be Both

Sara Taylor – The Shore

Anne Tyler – A Spool of Blue Thread

Sarah Waters – The Paying Guests

Jemma Wayne – After Before

PP Wong – The Life of a Banana

So, what are your thoughts?

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