Overview
- Judges named 16 titles across fiction, non-fiction, debut fiction and children’s fiction, selected from hundreds of submissions.
- Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know is shortlisted in fiction, a future-set novel he describes as “science fiction without the science.”
- Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul is shortlisted in non-fiction, tracing Afghanistan’s recent history through Kabul’s Inter-Continental hotel.
- Other shortlisted authors include James Fox, Sarah Perry, Damian Barr, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Benjamin Wood and Patrice Lawrence.
- The debut and children’s lists feature Ben Pester, Rochelle Dowden-Lord, George Harrison, Claire Lynch, Jamila Gavin, Struan Murray and Jenny Pearson.