• Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Brotherless Night: A Novel by V. V. Ganeshananthan
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Soldier Sailor: A Novel by Claire Kilroy
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure

Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Monica Ali

Each summer, the judges for the Women’s Prize for Fiction highlight the best new fiction books by female writers published over the previous twelve months. We asked Monica Ali, the acclaimed novelist and chair of this year’s jury, to talk us through the six novels that made the 2024 shortlist. See all our best novels of 2024 recommendations