Carol Diggory Shields

Jan 20, 2025 | womensprize.com | Carol Diggory Shields |Kate Grenville |Sheila Heti |Rachel Elliott

Winner of the 1998 Women’s Prize for FictionIt’s easy to feel adrift at this time of year, with the return to work after the holidays and dreary weather making life feel like a maze. Larry Weller’s whole life feels like a labyrinth, with his job, wife, and passion all coming to him through coincidence or mistake.

Oct 23, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | William Trevor |Carol Diggory Shields |Arundhati Roy |Charlotte Wood

Autumn. It’s a period of transition and change, ‘a time when the nights are sooner, chillier, the light a little less each time’. These words, written by Ali Smith in her Booker Prize 2019-shortlisted novel, aptly titled Autumn, sum up the essence of the season. As this shift unfolds, we reached out to you, our readers, for your favourite books to curl up with as the nights draw in (we see you with envy, Southern Hemisphere friends).