The Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction long list is announced!

The annual book award for fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women  throughout the world.

The Long List 2014

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah

Margaret Atwood - MaddAddam

Suzanne Berne –  The Dogs of Littlefield

Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon

Claire Cameron –  The Bear

Lea Carpenter - Eleven Days

M.J. Carter - The Strangler Vine

Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries

Deborah Kay Davies - Reasons She Goes to the Woods

Elizabeth Gilbert - The Signature of All Things

Hannah Kent - Burial Rites

Rachel Kushner - The Flamethrowers

Jhumpa Lahiri - The Lowland

Audrey Magee - The Undertaking

Eimear McBride - A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing

Charlotte Mendelson - Almost English

Anna Quindlen - Still Life with Bread Crumbs

Elizabeth Strout - The Burgess Boys

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

Evie Wyld - All The Birds, Singing