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Women's Prize for Fiction Winner of Winners

2026

Winner
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet

Shortlist
Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health by Daisy Fancourt
Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell
Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran

Longlist
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: China’s Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins by Barbara Demick
Don’t Let It Break You, Honey: A Memoir About Saving Yourself by Jenny Evans
With the Law on Our Side: How the Law Works for Everyone and How We Can Make It Work Better by Lady Hale
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Creativity and Race in the 21st Century by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage by Deepa Paul
Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry
The Genius of Trees: How Trees Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World by Harriet Rix
Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain by Zakia Sewell
To Exist As I Am: A Doctor’s Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance by Grace Spence Green
Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi

2025

Winner
The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke

Shortlist
A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang

Longlist
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor
Ootlin by Jenni Fagan
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight For Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men by Harriet Wistrich
Tracker by Alexis Wright

2024

Winner
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Shortlist
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
Code-Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

Longlist
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakely
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Intervals by Marianne Brooker
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines by Patricia Evangelista
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
Young Queens: The Intertwined Lives of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond Chang

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