In celebration of the fifteenth year of the RSL Ondaatje Prize we are announcing a longlist, for the first time:
| Rania Abouzeid | No Turning Back | (Oneworld) |
| Sam Byers | Perfidious Albion | (Faber & Faber) |
| Edward Carey | Little | (Aardvark Bureau) |
| Jonathan Coe | Middle England | (Viking) |
| Aida Edemariam | The Wife’s Tale | (4th Estate) |
| Aminatta Forna | Happiness | (Bloomsbury Circus) |
| Gaia Holmes | Where the road runs out | (Comma Poetry) |
| Christopher Hope | The Café de Move-on Blues | (Atlantic Books) |
| Emmanuel Iduma | A Stranger’s Pose | (Cassava Republic) |
| Alice Jolly | Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile | (Unbound)) |
| Patrick Langley | Arkady | (Fitzcarraldo Editions) |
| Jamal Mahjoub | A Line in the River | (Bloomsbury Publishing) |
| Sarah Moss | Ghost Wall | (Granta Books) |
| S.K. Perry | Let Me Be Like Water | (Melville House UK) |
| Donal Ryan | From a Low and Quiet Sea | (Doubleday) |
| Heidi Sopinka | The Dictionary of Animal Languages | (Scribe UK) |
| Guy Stagg | The Crossway | (Picador) |
| Malachy Tallack | The Valley at the Centre of the World | (Canongate) |
| Isabella Tree | Wilding | (Picador) |
| Adam Weymouth | Kings of the Yukon | (Particular Books) |
This year’s judges are This year’s judges are Sabrina Mahfouz, Michèle Robertsand Ian Thomson.