Presenting the shortlisted books for this year's Rathbones Folio Prize. Category winners and the Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year will be announced on Monday 27th March 2023 in a gala ceremony at the British Library.

NON-FICTION

The Passengers by Will Ashon

In Love by Amy Bloom

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland

Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson

The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey


FICTION
                        
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

Scary Monsters Michelle de Kretser

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

Emergency by Daisy Hildyard

Lucy by the Sea Elizabeth Strout

 
POETRY
                  
Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Ephemeron by Fiona Benson

Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

England's Green by Zaffar Kunial

Manorism by Yomi Ṣode