Zadie Smith and Alice Winn longlisted for the Goldsboro Books’ Glass Bell Award 2024

Evaluated by Goldsboro booksellers, the annual award celebrates “engaging narration with great characterisation and a distinct voice that is with confidence created and surely understood in all categories”. The winner will certainly be announced on 26th September, at Goldsboro’s 25th anniversary celebration, and will receive ₤ 2,000 and a handmade, personalized glass bell.

Smith is longlisted for her very first venture into historic fiction with The Fraudulence (Hamish Hamilton) while Rebecca F Kuang made it onto the checklist with her literary satire Yellowface (District Press). Debut storytellers Winn and Adjei-Brenyah are chosen for In Memoriam (Viking) and Chain-Gang All Stars (Harvill Secker), respectively.

Books by authors consisting of Zadie Smith, Alice Winn and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah have been longlisted for Goldsboro Books’ Glass Bell Honor 2024, in the most considerable longlist given that the reward’s creation.

This longlist highlights fourteen of the best works of fiction around today! I’m looking forward to our judging conversations– there’s so much to be claimed regarding each of these impressive stories, and I really feel that this year will certainly be particularly challenging choosing a winner because we couldn’t reduce the longlist to our typical twelve, so enthusiastic were the team concerning each book.”