Baileys women's prize for fiction shortlists

Now in its 20th year, the prize – formerly known as the Orange – sets out to reward “excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women from throughout the world”.

  Outline by Rachel Cusk (Faber/Vintage)

The Bees by Laline Paull (Fourth Estate)

A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury)

How to Be Both by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus)

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (Virago)



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