The Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced the shortlist for the 2013 prize:

View the shortlist here.

• Kate Atkinson: Life After Life
• A.M Homes: May We Be Forgiven
• Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behaviour
• Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies
• Maria Semple: Where’d You Go, Bernadette
• Zadie Smith: NW