2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction 
WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ANNOUNCES 2019 LONGLIST
The Women’s Prize for Fiction, the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring fiction by women, has announced the 2019 longlist. Now in its 24thyear, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world.
The longlist of 16 novels follow in alphabetical order by author’s surname:
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Pisces byMelissa Broder
Milkman by Anna Burns
Freshwater byAkwaeke Emezi
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lilian Li
Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Praise Songs for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden
Circe by Madeline Miller
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Normal People bySally Rooney
The Man Booker International Prize 
The Man Booker International Prize
The 2018 longlist:
- Laurent Binet (France), Sam Taylor, The 7th Function of Language (Harvill Secker)
- Javier Cercas (Spain), Frank Wynne, The Impostor (MacLehose Press)
- Virginie Despentes (France), Frank Wynne, Vernon Subutex 1 (MacLehose Press)
- Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), Susan Bernofsky, Go, Went, Gone (Portobello Books)
- Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith, The White Book (Portobello Books)
- Ariana Harwicz (Argentina), Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff, Die, My Love (Charco Press)
- László Krasznahorkai (Hungary), John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes, The World Goes On (Tuskar Rock Press)
- Antonio Muñoz Molina (Spain), Camilo A. Ramirez, Like a Fading Shadow (Tuskar Rock Press)
- Christoph Ransmayr (Austria), Simon Pare, The Flying Mountain (Seagull Books)
- Ahmed Saadawi (Iraq), Jonathan Wright, Frankenstein in Baghdad (Oneworld)
- Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Jennifer Croft, Flights (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
- Wu Ming-Yi (Taiwan, China), Darryl Sterk, The Stolen Bicycle (Text Publishing)
- Gabriela Ybarra (Spain), Natasha Wimmer, The Dinner Guest (Harvill Secker)
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Book of the Month The Long Drop - Denise Mina
William Watt wants answers about his family's murder. Peter Manuel has them. But Peter Manuel is a liar. William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family.
One December night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows. Based on true events, The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel from a writer at the height of her powers.
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