Australian author Charlotte Wood longlisted for Booker Prize for Stone Yard Devotional

Australian author Charlotte Wood has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in international literature, for her latest novel, Stone Yard Devotional. Sarah L'Estrange, from ABC RN's The Book Show, called Stone Yard Devotional "a quiet, contemplative novel". Critic Kate Evans, host of ABC RN's The Bookshelf, describes Stone Yard Devotional as an "excellent inclusion in the Booker longlist". " The 2024 Booker Prize longlist Wild Houses by Colin Barrett Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel James by Percival Everett Orbital by Samantha Harvey Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner My Friends by Hisham Matar This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud Held by Anne Michaels Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange Enlightenment by Sarah Perry Playground by Richard Powers The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood " I don't think that prizes are necessarily indicative of the quality of the book and lots of the books that have been written in Australia that are the most, to me as a reader, original and exciting and that to my eyes have the most literary merit have mostly never won prizes or been shortlisted."