Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017: Shortlist

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The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction: 2017 Longlist

The 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist:

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

The shortlist will be announced on April 3 and the winner on June 7.

Women's Prize for Fiction 

The Desmond Elliott Prize 2016: Longlist

The Desmond Elliott Prize 2016 longlist in full:

• Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume (Windmill)
• The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon (Borough Press)
• The Honours by Tim Clare (Canongate)
• The Butcher’s Hook by Janet Ellis (Two Roads)
• Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh (Canongate)
• Disclaimer by Renée Knight (Doubleday)
• Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea (Scribe)
• The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney (John Murray)
• The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester (Viking)
• The Weightless World by Anthony Trevelyan (Galley Beggar Press)

The Desmond Elliott Prize is an annual award for a first novel written in English and published in the UK. 
A shortlist will be announced on 6th May, and the winner will be revealed at a ceremony at Fortnum & Mason on 22nd June where they will be presented with a cheque for £10,000.

The Desmond Elliott Prize

The 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction: Longlist

The longlisted books are as follows: 

 Kate Atkinson: A God in Ruins 
 Shirley Barrett: Rush Oh! 
 Cynthia Bond: Ruby 
 Geraldine Brooks: The Secret Chord 
 Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 
 Jackie Copleton:A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding 
 Rachel Elliott: Whispers Through a Megaphone 
 Anne Enright: The Green Road 
 Petina Gappah: The Book of Memory 
 Vesna Goldsworthy: Gorsky 
 Clio Gray: The Anatomist’s Dream 
 Melissa Harrison: At Hawthorn Time 
 Attica Locke: Pleasantville 
 Lisa McInerney: The Glorious Heresies 
 Elizabeth McKenzie: The Portable Veblen 
 Sara Nović: Girl at War 
 Julia Rochester: The House at the Edge of the World 
 Hannah Rothschild: The Improbability of Love 
 Elizabeth Strout: My Name is Lucy Barton 
 Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life 

The 2016 shortlist will be announced on Monday 11th April 

The 2016 winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction will be announced on Wednesday 8th June