The Orange Prize for Fiction longlist was announced today. Find out more at: http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/home

The Books:

Debra Adelaide The Household Guide to Dying (HarperCollins)

Gaynor Arnold Girl in a Blue Dress (Tindal Street Press)

Lissa Evans Their Finest Hour and a Half (Doubleday)

Bernadine Evaristo Blonde Roots (Hamish Hamilton)

Ellen Feldman Scottsboro (Picador)

Laura Fish Strange Music (Jonathan Cape)

V V Ganeshananthan Love Marriage (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Allegra Goodman Intuition (Atlantic Books)

Samantha Harvey The Wilderness (Jonathan Cape)

Samantha Hunt The Invention of Everything Else (HarvillSecker)

Michelle de Kretser The Lost Dog (Chatto & Windus)

Deirdre Madden Molly Fox’s Birthday (Faber)

Toni Morrison A Mercy (Chatto & Windus)

Gina Ochsner The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight (Portobello Books)

Marilynne Robinson Home (Virago)

Preeta Samarasan Evening is the Whole Day (Fourth Estate)

Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury)

Curtis Sittenfeld American Wife (Doubleday)

Miriam Toews The Flying Troutmans (Faber)

The shortlist will be revealed on 21st April with the shortlist for the Orange Award for New Writers announced 7th April. The winners of both awards will be announced at a ceremony on the 3rd June. Rose Tremain was awarded the prize last year for The Road Home.