Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 - shortlist 11 April 2016
Half of this year's Baileys Women's Prize shortlist are made up of debut authors.


The BookTrust-managed prize is now in its 21st year and celebrates the writing and books from women around the world.

The complete shortlist is:

Cynthia Bond - Ruby (Two Roads)
Anne Enright - The Green Road (Vintage)
Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies (John Murray)
Elizabeth McKenzie - The Portable Veblen (Fourth Estate)
Hannah Rothschild - The Improbability of Love (Bloomsbury)
Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life (Picador)

This year's winner will be announced on 8 June at the Royal Festival Hal

The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney is this year's winner of the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.

Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist announced March 8 2017

Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo
The Power, Naomi Alderman
Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood
Little Deaths, Emma Flint
The Mare: a novel, Mary Gaitskill
The Dark Circle, Linda Grant
The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride
Midwinter, Fiona Melrose
The Sport of Kings, C.E. Morgan
The Woman Next Door, Yewande Omotoso
The Lonely Hearts Hotel, Heather O’Neill
The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
Barkskins, Annie Proulx
First Love, Gwendoline Riley
Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien
The Gustav Sonata, Rose Tremain

The winner of the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction in 2017 is The Power by Naomi Alderman.

The sixteen books that make up the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist on International Women’s Day!

H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

....and the shortlist is:

Sight by Jessie Greengrass

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar

When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy

Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family’s connection to Islamic State, has won the Women’s prize for fiction, acclaimed by judges as “the story of our times”.

I quite liked that one - good choice!

Hooray! I also loved Home Fire.