The 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist:
Assembly by Natasha Brown (Hamish Hamilton)
The Promise by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus)
Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe)
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare (4th Estate)
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber)
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley (Granta)
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker)
The Magician by Colm Tóibín (Viking)
The other longlisted titles:
Checkout 19 by Claire Louise Bennett (Cape)
Everybody by Olivia Laing (Picador)
Sea State by Tabitha Lasley (4th Estate)
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen (4th Estate)
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski (Quercus)
Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard (Penned in the Margins)
The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib (Allen Lane)
Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Granta)
A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood (Faber)
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Faber)
Palmares by Gayl Jones (Virago)
The winner will be announced
on 23rd March.
Galgut’s Booker winner and Tóibín’s fictionalised biography of Thomas Mann are two of eight titles selected by the judges
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