The shortlist for this year’s Rathbones Folio Prize, previously known simply as the Folio Prize,  has been announced. The winner will be awarded on May 24.

• The Vanishing Man, by Laura Cumming
• The Return, by Hisham Matar
• This Census-Taker, by China Mieville
• The Sport of Kings, by C.E. Morgan
• The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson
• Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeleine Thien
• Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, by Robin Yassin-Kassar & Leila Al-Shami