The 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange prize) longlist includes Australians Carrie Tiffany and M. L. Stedman.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Now in its 18th year, the prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world.

The longlisted books and authors are:

• Kitty Aldridge A Trick I Learned From Dead Men (Jonathan Cape)
• Kate Atkinson Life After Life (Doubleday)
• Ros Barber The Marlowe Papers (Sceptre)
• Shani Boianjiu The People of Forever are Not Afraid (Hogarth Press)
• Gillian Flynn Gone Girl (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Sheila Heti How Should A Person Be? (Harvill Secker)
• A. M. Homes May We Be Forgiven (Granta)
• Barbara Kingsolver Flight Behaviour (Faber & Faber)
• Deborah Copaken Kogan The Red Book (Virago)
• Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate)
• Bonnie Nadzam Lamb (Hutchinson)
• Emily Perkins The Forrests (Bloomsbury Circus)
• Michèle Roberts Ignorance (Bloomsbury)
• Francesca Segal The Innocents (Chatto & Windus)
• Maria Semple Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Elif Shafak Honour (Viking)
• Zadie Smith NW (Hamish Hamilton)
• M. L. Stedman The Light Between Oceans (Vintage)
• Carrie Tiffany Mateship with Birds (Picador)
• G. Willow Wilson Alif the Unseen (Corvus Books)

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