Yomi Adegoke's THE LIST is longlisted for The Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024

We're thrilled to see that Yomi Adegoke's smash-hit THE LIST (published by Fourth Estate) has been longlisted for The Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024. Judged by the Goldsboro team of booksellers, the prize rewards ‘compelling storytelling with brilliant characterisation and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realised’ in all genres.

The winner — announced on Thursday, 26th September, at Goldsboro’s 25th Birthday party — will be awarded £2,000 and a beautiful, handmade, engraved blue glass bell. Previous winners include Chris Cleave for Everyone Brave is Forgiven (Sceptre), John Boyne for The Heart’s Invisible Furies (Transworld), Christina Dalcher for VOX (HQ) & Ayanna Lloyd Banwo for When We Were Birds.

David Headley, Goldsboro Books co-founder, MD, and founder of the Glass Bell, says: ‘This is the longest list we have chosen in the eight years since we launched this prize. Reading is one of the greatest comforts available to us in these uncertain times – and each of these stories constructs very different but equally immersive worlds for readers to inhabit. This longlist highlights fourteen of the best works of fiction around today! I’m looking forward to our judging discussions – there’s so much to be said about each of these remarkable novels, and I feel that this year will be particularly difficult choosing a winner because we couldn’t cut the longlist to our normal twelve, so passionate were the team about each book.’

You can find the full longlist here.