We’re delighted to announce that Charlotte Wood has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her remarkable novel, Stone Yard Devotional.

Published by Sceptre in the UK and Allen & Unwin in Australia, Stone Yard Devotional  is a fearless exploration of forgiveness, grief and the complicated beauty of female friendship.

Commenting on Stone Yard Devotional, this year’s judges said: ‘Sometimes a visitor becomes a resident, and a temporary retreat becomes permanent. This happens to the narrator in Stone Yard Devotional – a woman with seemingly solid connections to the world who changes her life and settles into a monastery in rural Australia. Yet no shelter is impermeable. The past, in the form of the returning bones of an old acquaintance, comes knocking at her door; the present, in the forms of a global pandemic and a local plague of mice and rats, demands her attention. The novel thrilled and chilled the judges – it’s a book we can’t wait to put into the hands of readers.’

The shortlist of six books will be released on Monday 16 September and the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize will be announced at Old Billingsgate in London on Tuesday 12 November. For more information and to see the full longlist, click here.