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Zadie Smith and Alice Winn longlisted for the Goldsboro Books' Glass Bell Award 2024
Books by authors including Zadie Smith, Alice Winn and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah have been longlisted for Goldsboro Books’ Glass Bell Award 2024, in the most extensive longlist since the prize’s inception.
Judged by Goldsboro booksellers, the annual award celebrates "compelling storytelling with brilliant characterisation and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realised in all genres". The winner will be announced on 26th September, at Goldsboro’s 25th anniversary party, and will receive £2,000 and a handmade, engraved glass bell.
Smith is longlisted for her first foray into historical fiction with The Fraud (Hamish Hamilton) while Rebecca F Kuang made it onto the list with her literary satire Yellowface (Borough Press). Debut novelists Winn and Adjei-Brenyah are nominated for In Memoriam (Viking) and Chain-Gang All Stars (Harvill Secker), respectively.
Crime writer Lisa Jewell joins the longlist with None of This is True (Century) alongside Costanza Casati’s Ancient Greek reimagining Clytemnestra (Michael Joseph) and Yomi Adegoke’s debut The List (Fourh Estate).
Strange Sally Diamond (Sandycove) by Liz Nugent is in contention for the prize with Emilia Hart’s Weyward (Borough Press), Isabelle Schuler’s Lady Macbethad (Bloomsbury Raven), David Fennell’s The Silent Man (Zaffre) and Hannah Kaner’s fantasy debut Godkiller (HarperVoyager).
Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s The Square of Sevens (Mantle) and Gareth Rubin’s The Turnglass (Simon & Schuster) complete the longlist.
David Headley, Goldsboro Books co-founder, managing director and founder of the Glass Bell, commented: "This is the longest list we have chosen in the eight years since we launched this prize. Reading is one of thegreatest comforts available to us in these uncertain times – and each of these stories constructs very different but equally immersive worlds for readers to inhabit. This longlist highlights fourteen of the best works of fiction around today! I’m looking forward to our judging discussions – there’s so much to be said about each of these remarkable novels, and I feel that this year will be particularly difficult choosing a winner because we couldn’t cut the longlist to our normal twelve, so passionate were the team about each book."
