Women's Prize for Fiction
The Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction is one of the most prestigious literary awards available. The prize was first awarded in 1995 and has since continued annually as a celebration of excellence, originality and accessibilty in women's writing from around the world.
Each winner receives a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze, known as a 'Bessie', created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven.
Read about the 'Best of the Best' prize winners of the past 20 years here, and shop the nominees below.
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
$19.00 NZD
Category: WPF 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'There are things even love can't do . . . If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But ev ...Show more
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
$24.15 NZD
Category: WPF 2018
A Sunday Times bestseller, now longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018. 'A brilliantly plotted story of mermaids, madams and intrigue in 1780s London and I wouldn't be surprised to see it become the Essex Serpent of 2018' - The Pool 'Imogen Hermes Gowar is a soon- ...Show more
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
$57.00 NZD
Category: WPF 2018
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountain ...Show more
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
$18.00 NZD
Category: WPF 2017
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • A Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for an ...Show more
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
$35.00 NZD
Category: WPF 2018
The bestselling author of the "remarkable...masterfully constructed, pitch-perfect" (Booklist, starred review) debut The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring peopl ...Show more
When I Hit You: Or, a Portrait of the Writer As a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
$42.00 NZD
Category: WPF 2018
Seduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife, but what for her is a contract of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealized version of a kept woman, bullying her out of her life as an ...Show more