The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist

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'Holy smokes this novel is an absolute cut above! Exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a new…

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A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery'Kaleidoscopic, full of style and…

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‘Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.’MIRIAM MARGOLYES'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.'HANNAH…

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“Annie Ano Fernando doesn’t care much for men”And so begins a novel exploring trauma, displacement, queerness over three generations and three continents of the Sri Lankan diaspora. *1951, Singapore. Ten-year-old Josephina…

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An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge'Surprising, chilling, and electric' - Alice Winn, bestselling author of IN MEMORIAM'Moving, unnerving and deeply sexy' - Tracy…

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BEST BOOKS for 2025 from Stylist and Good Housekeeping'Dextrous and powerful . . . a hugely accomplished portrait of ambition and self-fulfilment' Guardian'The Artist is a lush, impressive debut; the writing is rich and sensuous, especially…

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'Crisp, transportive, uplifting. The fresh, irreverent voice of Tibb Ingleby is sheer brilliance. I loved it!' -BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRYA blazingly original and irreverent tale of belief and superstition, kinship…

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A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted author.It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has…

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‘By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?’When academic Nadia is disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, she decides to make a getaway – accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with…

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‘This is an extraordinary novel.  It is shattering, almost unbearable, yet – so good, so clear – it is unputdownable.’ Roddy DoyleDeidre is a victim, of her family, her society, her history. That is…

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A riotously funny and moving debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside downMeet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America,…

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A searing new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' THE SUNDAY TIMES‘A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book.…

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The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her lifeA 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK,…

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Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for FictionSara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside at the airport. Using data from her dreams, their algorithm has determined…

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Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for FictionAn extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, NESTING introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction.On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a…

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Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for FictionIn a small seaside town, autumn is edging into winter, gulls ride winds over the waves, and two women pass each other on the promenade, as yet unaware of each other’s existence.In the…