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