The Women’s Prize 2025
Fiction Shortlist
Each of the shortlisted six books explore the need for personal freedom and human connection, illustrating the ways in which autonomy, love, and friendship can act as a salve to life’s challenges.
Written with nuance and depth, they offer compelling multi-layered stories that urge you to sit up and take notice of the world around you.
The Women’s Prize 2025
Non-Fiction Shortlist
The six books on the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist are united by the power of hope and the necessity of resistance to initiate change.
From history, science and nature, to current affairs and memoir these non-fiction works are written with passion, insight and authority, vividly and compellingly bringing to life their respective stories and subjects.
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