Women's Prize for Fiction 2024

Updated September 12, 2024
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Brotherless Night
Ganeshananthan, V. V.
Paper Book
Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers and their best friend, get swept up in violent political ideologies and...
Western Lane
Maroo, Chetna
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 Longlisted for the William Hill Award 2023 A BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read selection Selected by Dua Lipa as one of Service95's 'Books of the Year' ...
Restless Dolly Maunder
Grenville, Kate
Paper Book
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor farming family in country New South Wales but clever, energetic and determined, Dolly spent her restless life pushing at those doors. ...
River East, River West: A Novel
Lescure, Aube Rey.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world-...
Soldier sailor
Kilroy, Claire
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 The Times Novel of the YearAnd a Guardian, FT, Economist, Irish Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Irish Independent and Independent Book of the...
Enter ghost
Hammad, Isabella
Paper Book
A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine 'Magnificent' OBSERVER 'Different to anything else being written right now in English' SUNDAY TIMES 'A pretty flawless writer' THE TIMES...
Ordinary human failings : a novel
Nolan, Megan
Paper Book
A Best Book of 2023 in The Times, Sunday Times, i-D, the Guardian When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all- a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk...
The wren, the wren : a novel
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. 'A magnificent novel'...
8 lives of a century-old trickster
Lee, Mirinae
Paper Book
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Captivating' New York Times'Dazzling' Financial Times'A cracking read' Historical Novel SocietySLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not...
And then she fell
Elliott, Alicia
Paper Book
And Then She Fell is an unflinching and fiercely witty debut novel of Indigenous life, womanhood and mental health, heralding the arrival of an important and urgent new voice in genre-bending fiction.
Hangman
Binyam, Maya
Paper Book
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree Winner of the Bard Fiction PrizeLong-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vulture,...
In Defence Of The Act
Black, Effie.
Paper Book
The blue, beautiful world
Lord, Karen
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 'This complex, engaging novel takes an unusual approach to the classic trope of aliens in our midst, with a warmth and intelligence reminiscent of Ursula K Le Guin' GUARDIAN The...
The maiden
Foster, Kate
Paper Book
The Times bestseller and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award and the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year. 'A masterpiece' - Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal Inspired by a real-life case, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a...
A trace of sun
Williams, Pam
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 'Don't go Mammy please.' Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she bent over him; held him to her thumping chest. Tears sliding from her face to his. Raef is left behind in Grenada when his...
Nightbloom
Medie, Peace Adzo
Paper Book
  'Remarkable' Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters' Street  AKORFA AND SELASI WERE ONCE INSEPARABLE. NOW, THEY MUST REPAIR THEIR BROKEN RELATIONSHIP OR LOSE EACH OTHER FOREVER. Growing up in the same small Ghanaian town, Selasi and Akorfa were more than just...

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