Baileys women’s prize for fiction longlist

Baileys women’s prize for fiction longlist 2015

• Outline by Rachel Cusk (Faber and Faber) – British – 8th novel
• Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans (Doubleday) – British – 4th novel
• Aren’t We Sisters? by Patricia Ferguson (Penguin) – British – 8th novel
• I Am China by Xiaolu Guo (Chatto & Windus) – Chinese/ British – 6th novel
• Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape) – British - 3rd novel
• Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey (Viking) – British – 1st novel
• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (Picado) – Canadian – 4th novel
• The Offering by Grace McCleen (Sceptre) – British – 3rd novel 
• The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman (Chatto & Windus) – British/American – 3rd novel 
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill (Quercus) – Canadian – 2nd novel 
• The Bees by Laline Paull (Fourth Estate) – British - 1st novel 
• The Table of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips (Jonathan Cape) – British – 2nd Novel 
• The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert (Virago) – British – 3rd novel 
• A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury) – Pakistani/British – 6th novel 
• How to be Both by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton) - British – 6th novel 
• The Shore by Sara Taylor (William Heinemann) – American – 1st novel 
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus) – American – 20th novel 
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (Virago) – British – 6th novel 
• After Before by Jemma Wayne (Legend Press) – British – 1st novel 
• The Life of a Banana by PP Wong (Legend Press) – British – 1st novel

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