At The Reading Agency, we have a particularly strong and special partnership with public libraries. Libraries are in every community and are used by a broad cross section of the population but particularly by those people we are trying to reach. This year the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction wanted to build upon this special partnership by giving librarians the opportunity to share the best of fiction written by women with their communities.

British author Naomi Alderman has won the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction with her fourth novel The Power (Viking).

Translated books account for only 3.5% of literary fiction published. We work with the Man Booker International Prize to help translated fiction reach new audiences.