Bailey's Women's Fiction Prize 2015 shortlist
Bad luck to PP Wong (The Life of a Banana) and to Xiaolu Gu (I Am China) who were both on the longlist for The Bailey's Women's Fiction Prize (formerly The Orange Prize), but who failed to make the shortlist, announced yesterday.
But great news that Kamila Shamsie (A God in Every Stone) and Laline Paull (The Bees) both made the cut.
The shortlist
| Author | Title | Publisher | Nationality | Notes |
| Rachel Cusk | Outline | Faber/Vintage | British | 8thNovel |
| Laline Paull | The Bees | Fourth Estate | British | 1stNovel |
| Kamila Shamsie | A God in Every Stone | Bloomsbury | Pakistani/British | 6thNovel |
| Ali Smith | How to be Both | Hamish Hamilton | British | 6thNovel |
| Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | Chatto & Windus | American | 20thNovel |
| Sarah Waters | The Paying Guests | Virago | British | 6thNovel
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