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The Longlist For  Baileys women’s prize for fiction 2015



Outline by Rachel Cusk (Faber and Faber) – British – 8th novel

Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans (Doubleday) – British – 4th novel

Aren’t We Sisters? by Patricia Ferguson (Penguin) – British – 8th novel

I Am China by Xiaolu Guo (Chatto & Windus) – Chinese/ British – 6th novel

Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape) – British - 3rd novel

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey (Viking) – British – 1st novel

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (Picado) – Canadian – 4th novel

The Offering by Grace McCleen (Sceptre) – British – 3rd novel

The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman (Chatto & Windus) – British/American – 3rd novel

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill (Quercus) – Canadian – 2nd novel

The Bees by Laline Paull (Fourth Estate) – British - 1st novel

The Table of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips (Jonathan Cape) – British – 2nd Novel

The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert (Virago) – British – 3rd novel

A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury) – Pakistani/British – 6th novel

How to be Both by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton) - British – 6th novel

The Shore by Sara Taylor (William Heinemann) – American – 1st novel

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus) – American – 20th novel

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (Virago) – British – 6th novel

After Before by Jemma Wayne (Legend Press) – British – 1st novel

The Life of a Banana by PP Wong (Legend Press) – British – 1st novel