The 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist has been announced - with six debut authors on the list. The award - which this year is celebrating its 25th anniversary - will be announced on June 3 at an awards ceremony in central London. And a shortlist will be announced next month. But, before all that, just how many of this year’s longlist have you read? Look below to see just who has been nominated for the prestigious prize. (Not all of the books have been released yet.)
2020 Women's Prize For Fiction Longlist
1 of 16Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Anappara's debut novel follows the exploits of three juvenile detectives on the trail of a child stealer in urban India.
2 of 16Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Brodesser-Akner's electric debut is a novel about marriage, divorce and modern relationships.
3 of 16Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Candice Carty-Williams' debut has been described as a 'painfully funny coming-of-age story set in modern Britain'.
4 of 16Dominicana by Angie Cruz
'A thrilling, necessary, and unforgettable portrait of what it means to be an immigrant,' writer Patricia Engel says.
5 of 16Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo was the joint winner of last year's Booker Prize.
6 of 16Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
The novel has been described as 'a beautiful and unforgettable novel from the winner of the Costa Short Story award'.
7 of 16A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
In A Thousand Ships, classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective.
8 of 16The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The conclusion to Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, following her Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies .
9 of 16Girl by Edna O'Brien
Girl envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.
10 of 16Hamnet by Maggie O' Farrell
Waterstones describes the book as, 'One of our greatest living novelists resurrects the short life of Hamnet Shakespeare, in this lyrically written and emotionally devastating account of the Bard's only son.'
11 of 16Weather by Jenny Offill
'In Weather, we construct a whole from the pieces that we hold in our hands a truly remarkable novel, perhaps the most powerful portrait of Trump's America yet,' The Observer says.
12 of 16The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
'Few novelists today combine such a forensic eye with an acute and humane understanding of human nature. I would read Ann Patchett's shopping list,' writer JoJo Moyes says about The Dutch House.
13 of 16Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Waterstones says, 'Woodson's stunningly assured work navigates three generations of black American history with verve and urgency.'
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14 of 16Actress by Anne Enright
Anne Enright, the Booker-winning Irish author, returns with a novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths.
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15 of 16How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
The New York Times describe How We Disappeared as, 'a heartbreaking but hopeful story about memory, trauma and ultimately love.'
16 of 16The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
'Lombardo's impressive debut is a gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory,' says Madeline Miller, author of Circe and the Women's-Prize-winning The Song of Achilles. 'She juggles a huge cast of characters with seeming effortlessness, bringing each to life with humour, vividness and acute psychological insight.'
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