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Book Awards > Women's Prize for Fiction
The Women's Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Founded in 1996, the Prize was set up to celebrate excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world.
Below is the 2021 longlist....
Luster by Raven Leilani
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Meet Edie. Edie is not okay. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for ...Show more
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
It takes courage to survive in a world full of trouble... In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of ...Show more
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Te ...Show more
Summer by Ali Smith
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet
The unmissable conclusion to Ali Smith's dazzling, Man Booker-shortlisted, Seasonal Quartet. In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world’s in meltdown—and the real meltdown hasn’t even started ...Show more
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instan ...Show more
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Gifty is the younger child in a family of four who have emigrated from Ghana to the American South. While her gorgeous brother is a sports hero, her father longs to return home and her mother is desperate to hold this family of four together. When Gifty's brother's glorious success on the basketball co ...Show more
Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies suddenly he has to think again. In reliving their twenty years together David sees that the ground beneath them had shifted and he simply hadn't noticed. Or had chosen not to. Figuring out who Mary Rose rea ...Show more
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and - on the brink of forty - living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts t ...Show more
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than 'I like you a great deal ...Show more
The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig
$38.00 NZD
Category: Crime
When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web. Now a poor young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she married Jake and had his child, her dreams were crushed into bitter disillusion. H ...Show more
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit. Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was ...Show more
Because of You by Dawn French
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Because Of You is Dawn French's stunning new novel, told with her signature humour, warmth and so much love. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock . . . midnight. The old millennium turns into the new. In the same hospital, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters. Hope leaves w ...Show more
