The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world. The 2025 shortlist features multi-generational perspectives and a strong showing of debuts, with four of the six books written by new voices, fitting for the Prize’s 30th year.

The judging panel for the 2025 Prize is chaired by author Kit de Waal. She is joined by novelist, journalist and inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers (the Women’s Prize for debut novelists in 2006), Diana Evans; author, journalist and mental-health campaigner, Bryony Gordon; magazine editor, most recently Editor-in-Chief of Glamour UK, Deborah Joseph; and musician and composer known for award-winning film scores, Amelia Warner.