Naomi Alderman is the only novelist to make it on to the longlist for the 2017 Orwell prize for outstanding political writing, in a year when George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is once again troubling the bestseller lists. The novel has also been longlisted for the 2017 Bailey’s prize for women’s fiction, and shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust science writing prize. No overall theme emerges from the longlist, which includes four books by women. Irish revisionist historian Ruth Dudley Edwards is longlisted for The Seven, one of four of history books on the list. “The books reflect many aspects of Orwell’s literary character and interests: fiction, journalism, football, language and landscape,” the judges added.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2017 00:00 UTC