Experience tells on Baileys Women's Prize shortlist

Five writers on the six-strong shortlist for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction – Rachel Cusk, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, Anne Tyler and Sarah Waters – have all been shortlisted for the award before.  The sixth novelist, Laline Paull, is shortlisted for her debut The Bees (Fourth Estate), about a bee born into the lowest class of her society, and her climb to the Queen’s inner sanctum. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Carnegie Award Shortlist Includes Booker, Costa Award Winners

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