2021 Women's Prize shortlist is all first-time nominees

The shortlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize is out, and it’s entirely made of first-time nominees.

The Guardian reports that it’s the first time since 2005 that the shortlist was only first-timers.

The winner of the £30,000 ($41,700) award will be revealed July 7; you can see the shortlisted books below and read what judge Bernardine Evaristo had to say about the nominees in the Guardian.

• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, by Cherie Jones

• No One is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood

• Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

• The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

• Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi 

• Unsettled Ground, by Claire Fuller

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