The longlist for the third Stella Prize has been announced.

Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)

The Strays (Emily Bitto, Affirm Press)

Only the Animals (Ceridwen Dovey, Penguin)

This House of Grief (Helen Garner, Text Publishing)

Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Penguin)

The Invisible History of the Human Race (Christine Kenneally, Black Inc.)

The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie Laguna, A&U)

The Golden Age (Joan London, Random House)

Laurinda (Alice Pung, Black Inc)

Nest (Inga Simpson, Hachette)

Heat and Light (Ellen van Neerven, UQP)

In My Mother’s Hands (Biff Ward, A&U)