Winner

Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Shortlist

Arlington Park – Rachel Cusk

The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers – Xiaolu Guo

The Observations – Jane Harris

Digging to America – Anne Tyler

Longlist

Poppy Shakespeare – Clare Allan

Peripheral Vision – Patricia Ferguson

Over – Margaret Forster

The Dissident – Nell Freudenberger

When to Walk – Rebecca Gowers

Carry Me Down – MJ Hyland

The Girls – Lori Lansens

Alligator – Lisa Moore

What Was Lost – Catherine O’Flynn

The Tenderness of Wolves – Stef Penney

Careless – Deborah Robertson

Afterwards – Rachel Seiffert

Ten Days in the Hills – Jane Smiley

The Housekeeper – Melanie Wallace