
The shortlist for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction was just announced.
- Stay With Me, by Ayobámi Adébáyo
- The Power, by Naomi Alderman
- The Dark Circle, by Linda Grant
- The Sport of Kings, by C.E. Morgan
- First Love, by Gwendoline Riley
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeleine Thien
Here is the longlist.



Some big names got kicked out – obviously I feel for those writers but I’m also glad that some lesser known names get their moment in the sun,