Congratulations to Shipstead, whose book ‘Great Circle’ has been longlisted for the #2021BookerPrize The judges said: ‘We were blown away by the ambition and epic sweep of this beautifully written novel about the doomed fictional aviatrix Marian Graves and a Hollywood actress cast in her biopic decades later. We felt that we knew these people and found ourselves comparing the experience of reading it to that of reading some of the great novels of the 19th century. Yet Great Circle is fresh and utterly unusual.’ #FinestFiction DoubleDayBooks