Women's Prize for Fiction - Longlist

   

   

   

   

   

No surprises to see Hilary Mantel is up there fighting for, I think, her fourth major award for Bring Up the Bodies. She has some pretty stiff competition if you ask me, though. Female literary heavy-weights Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson and Barbara Kingsolver are all up there fighting for the once Orange, now colourless Women's Prize for Fiction. Let's also not underestimate the six newcomers on the longlist either, with the last two years' prizes being awarded to debut novelists Tea Obreht (for The Tiger's Wife in 2011) and Madeline Miller (for The Song of Achilles in 2012 - review here).