The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced, with the largest number of women represented in its 55-year history, according to BBC.

Five of the six-strong shortlist are women, with authors from five countries represented, including the Netherlands for the first time.

The list includes former Women's Prize winner Anne Michaels, American writer Percival Everett and British author Samantha Harvey

Each short-listed author receives £2,500 and the winner, announced on 12 November, will win £50,000.

The prestigious prize is open to works of fiction written in English by authors anywhere in the world and published in the UK or Ireland.

The shortlist in full:

James - Percival Everett (US)

Orbital - Samantha Harvey (UK)

Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner (US)

Held - Anne Michaels (Canada)

The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden (Netherlands)

Stone Yard Devotion - Charlotte Wood (Australia)

Last year the Booker Prize was awarded to Ireland's Paul Lynch for Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism.