Men make up all the nominees for the best album award, in fact, with the five-strong shortlist completed by alt-J, for This Is All Yours, and Royal Blood, for their self-titled debut album.
Cusk's Outline sees a woman told a series of life stories by the people she meets, with the shortlist completed by Howard Jacobson's dystopian J, and Zia Haider Rahman's In The Light of What We Know, already longlisted for the Guardian first book award.
The shortlist is completed by Southcliffe's Sean Harris.
The shortlist was completed by Canadian-born artist Janice Kerbel, who learned musical theory in order to produce her work, Doug.
The shortlist is completed by The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick and Running Girl by Simon Mason.
The shortlist is completed by Jacob Polley's Jackself, a fictionalised autobiography told through the many "Jacks" of legend and folktale, and Ruby Robinson's debut Every Little Sound.
The shortlist is completed by Constantine's third collection, The Shieling, Black's first, If I Love You I Would Tell You This, Boggs's debut collection, Mattaponi Queen, and Boyle's ninth, Wild Child.
The Orwell prize shortlist is completed with Ferdinand Mount's The Tears of the Rajas, a history of the British in India told through the eyes of the family of Mount's grandmother.
Instead, the shortlist is completed with Saskia Goldschmidt's The Hormone Factory, Amy Grace Loyd's The Affairs of Others, May-Lan Tan's Things to Make and Break and Helen Walsh's The Lemon Grove.
The shortlist is completed by Canadian Madeleine Thien's Do Not Say We Have Nothing, in which a girl and her mother invite a young woman – who has fled China and the Tiananmen Square protests – into their home.
The Impac shortlist is completed with Scottish author Jon McGregor's Even the Dogs, set around the death of an alcoholic and the drug addicts who surround him, British writer Tim Pears's Landed, in which a man returns to the Welsh borders of his childhood, and American Willy Vlautin's tale of a boy and his horse, Lean on Pete.
