This year’s shortlist spans an incredible breadth of themes, geographies, time periods, and literary styles, the six shortlisted novels each interrogate the wealth of roles women play in society, the power they hold, and the extent to which they choose, or are able, to wield it.
The winner is The Correspondent by Virginia Evans.
- Flashlight by Susan Choi
- Dominion by Addie E Citchens
- The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
- The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson
- Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
- Heart the Lover by Lily King