Announced on Monday 13th April 2015, here is the shortlist for the Baileys Prize.
- Rachel Cusk: Outline
- Laline Paull: The Bees
- Kamila Shamsie: A God in Every Stone
- Ali Smith: How to be Both
- Anne Tyler: A Spool of Blue Thread
- Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests
The winner will be announced on Wednesday 3rd June.
These books were on the longlist:
- 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
- Marie Phillips: The Table of Less Valued Knights
- Rachel Seiffert: The Walk Home
- Sara Taylor: The Shore
- Jemma Wayne: After Before
- PP Wong: The Life of a Banana
And here’s the shadow shortlist from The Writes of Women blog:
- Samantha Harvey Dear Thief
- Sandra Newman Ice Cream Star
- Ali Smith How to be Both
- Sara Taylor The Shore
- Anne Tyler A Spool of Blue Thread
- Sarah Waters The Paying Guests
Never mind the winner, here’s lots of lovely reading for us all!
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