The longlist for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize has been announced.

Launched in 2014 as an alternative to the Man Booker Prize, the £30,000 Folio Prize is awarded out of the UK to the best new work of literature published in the English language in a given year, regardless of form. Books are nominated for the prize by members of the Academy, a body of over 250 writers and critics that includes Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, A.S. Byatt, Zadie Smith and J.M. Coetzee.

The full longlist is:

• Can You Tolerate This by Ashleigh Young
• The Crossway by Guy Stagg
• Francis: A Life in Songs by Ann Wroe
• Ghost Trees by Bob Gilbert
• House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
• I Am Dynamite by Sue Prideaux
• Land of the Living by Georgina Harding
• The Library of Ice by Nancy Campbell
• Little by Edward Carey
• Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• Mothers by Chris Power
• Murmur by Will Eaves
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Ordinary People by Diana Evans
• The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
• Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
• There There by Tommy Orange
• Us by Zaffar Kunial
• West by Carys Davies

The 2019 shortlist will be announced on 4 April, with the winner to be revealed on Monday 20 May. Find out more about the Prize here.