The longlist has been selected for the inaugural £30,000 (about $37,760) Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, open to "all women writers from across the globe who are published in the U.K. and writing in English." The shortlist will be announced March 27 and the winner June 13. The longlist:
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
Intervals by Marianne Brooker
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
A Flat Place: A Memoir by Noreen Masud
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines by Patricia Evangelista
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley
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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Longlists have been released for the 2024 Yoto Carnegies, which celebrate outstanding achievement in children's writing and illustration and are judged by children's librarians, with the Shadowers' Choice Medals voted for by children and young people. A total of 36 books have been recognized this year, with 19 selected for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing longlist and 18 for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration. See the complete longlists here.
Shortlists will be announced March 13 and winners named June 20 during the awards ceremony. Winners each receive a specially commissioned golden medal and a £5,000 (about $6,315) Colin Mears Award cash prize. The winners of the Shadowers' Choice Medals will also be presented at the ceremony and receive a gold medal and £500 (about $630) worth of books to donate to a library of their choice.