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May 30, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Nay Assassa
As publication day for The Shouts Beneath approaches, I’m nervous and excited. Hearing Jade record it and seeing the first cover art was such a pleasure. I’m currently just allowing myself to enjoy a sense of pride for getting it written and having my words out in the world rather than worrying about how it will be received. My focus over the next year is getting my debut novel Marooned finished;, writing the novella has had me itching to sink my teeth into that larger piece of writing.
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May 29, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Nay Assassa
We are delighted to introduce our reading groups, who will each be reading and reviewing one of the six shortlisted books for 2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. With members ranging from 25 to 90 years old, from the Southwest of England to Scotland, these groups are united by their love of reading. These groups not only provide a forum for discussing great books but create communities across generations and nurture safe spaces for members who come from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Nay Assassa
One of the debut novels on the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 longlist, A Trace of Sun draws from Pam’s family experiences as part of the Windrush generation. A beautiful and heartbreaking story told over the passage of time, exploring what it means to be a woman and mother and what the people in your life expect, want and need from you. Describe your book in one sentence as if you were telling a friend.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Peace Adzo Medie |Nay Assassa
Nightbloom is above all a gripping and beautifully written novel attesting to the strength of female bonds in the face of societies that would prefer to silence women. Moves like a love story between childhood, female friendship and buried truth; painful, intimate and beautifully written with characters who you care for. A jewel of a book. Describe your book in one sentence as if you were telling a friend.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Chetna Maroo |Nay Assassa
An unforgettable coming-of-age story, Western Lane is a moving exploration of the closeness of sisterhood, the immigrant experience, and the collective overcoming of grief. One of those exquisite books in which not one word is wasted. It is beautifully written. Describe your book in one sentence as if you were telling a friend.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Karen Lord |Nay Assassa
Quite literally takes a knife to climate change and opens up what humanity is going to look like in thefuture. The Blue, Beautiful Worldby Karen Lord Find out more Describe your book in one sentence as if you were telling a friend. First Contact scenario, but we’re the lesser aliens–ignorant, barbarous, socially fragmented, and neurologically challenged–and greater powers are already fighting over our resources and our sovereignty. What inspired you to write your novel?
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Claire Kilroy |Nay Assassa
In her acclaimed new novel, Claire Kilroy creates an unforgettable heroine, whose fierce love for her young son clashes with the seismic change to her own identity. A beautiful and harrowing novel about what it can feel like to be a first-time mother Soldier Sailorby Claire Kilroy Find out more Describe your book in one sentence as if you were telling a friend. The secret life of that woman you see plodding around with a pram. What inspired you to write your novel?
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Isabella Hammad |Nay Assassa
Describe your book in one sentence as if you were telling a friend. Sonia Nasir, an actress working in London, goes to visit her sister in Haifa and gets drawn into an Arabic-language production of Hamlet in the West Bank. What inspired you to write your novel? The relationships between performance, political protest, and power, as well as the particular history of theatre as a politicised art-form in Palestine.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Kate Foster |Nay Assassa
Told through chapters narrated alternately by Christian and Violet, the prostitute Forrester kept as a mistress, it’s a incredible story. A confident historical thriller with deep-dive, hot-blooded characters who you are cheerleading on. Cinematic. Gripping. Tense; A total page-turner. Poetic and captivating. Foster is a painter and The Maiden is a work of art. Describe your book in one sentence as if you were telling a friend.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Alicia Elliott |Nay Assassa
Told in Alice’s darkly funny voice, And Then She Fell is an urgent and unflinching look at inherited trauma, womanhood, denial, and false allyship, which speeds to an unpredictable—and surreal—climax. A deep dive into the shattered mind of a postpartum woman. I loved it. And Then She Fellby Alicia Elliott Find out more Describe your book in one sentence as if you were telling a friend.
