Female authors light up the Booker Prize shortlist

This year's writers have tackled wide-ranging subjects from espionage to space travel

Booker prize shortlist 2024.
The 'impressive' list is 'extremely varied'
(Image credit: Booker Prize Foundation)

This year's Booker Prize shortlist features more women than ever before, and "it's the strongest in years", said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Times.

Five of the six books to make "the cut" are written by female authors – a stark departure from last year's list that saw men with the name Paul (Paul Murray, Paul Harding and Paul Lynch) outnumber women.

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Irenie Forshaw is a features writer at The Week, covering arts, culture and travel. She began her career in journalism at Leeds University, where she wrote for the student newspaper, The Gryphon, before working at The Guardian and The New Statesman Group. Irenie then became a senior writer at Elite Traveler, where she oversaw The Experts column.