Thanks for this feature on our 2024 #WalterScottPrize shortlist, Shelf Awareness - which of the books on this list will you read next? shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?iss…

We couldn't be more thrilled to see Absolutely & Forever, My Father's House and The New Life on the shortlist for the #WalterScottPrize !

Congratulations to all the writers on the

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction short list.

Without doubt one of the finest literary prizes out there and one that changed our publishing lives forever.

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Guardian Books
The Times and The Sunday Times
Booksellers Association

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A brilliant chance to join our 2023 winner Lucy Caldwell, author of THESE DAYS (@FaberBooks), at a live recording of BBC Radio 4 Bookclub on 15 May! Here's how to get your ticket >> #booktok #bookclub #BBCRadio4

Delighted to see MY FATHER'S HOUSE by Joseph O'Connor on the shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction!

Strong showing from one of the best (and best run) prizes around.

Winning this in 2018 was a life-changer.

Thank you so much Joanne for this. Hoping you can come along to the #walterscottprize awards ceremony on 13 June to kick off Borders Book Festival!

Over the moooon to see Kai Thomas's IN THE UPPER COUNTRY on this stellar shortlist! John Murray Press

Congratulations to our colleague in Creative Writing, Joe O'Connor on being nominated as one of 6 novels going forward for the €25,000 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction.
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🎉 We are thrilled to see that Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein has been shortlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for Historical Fiction! Congratulations to Kevin and all the other nominated authors.

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Not long until our shortlist is revealed -- which books from these 12 do you think will be in the final running for the £25,000 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction 2024?

Care to peek inside the judging room at our shortlisting meeting? Let us know which of the twelve novels you hope will make the shortlist for this year's £25,000 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction >> #booktok

We love this @guardianbooks feature on librarians' ideas for how to get lost in literature -- everything from exploring audiobooks to checking prize lists like the #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction. With thanks to Sarah Phillips and Louise Morrish 🌕
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Congratulations to the authors shortlisted for Women's Prize, with a special shout out to Kate Grenville and Isabella Hammad, both previously shortlisted for the #WalterScottPrize . Well done all!

'Of all the prize lists and chat circulating, this year it’s the @walterscottprize for #historicalfiction that has most captured my attention. Thanks so much to Kim over on Instagram for following enthusiastically along with our 2024 longlist! See more >> instagram.com/p/C6HbKLfrMXpd…

'The 1890s...were actually a period of optimism about what we would now call gay rights. We don’t remember this because what happened to Wilde changed the story.' Read Tom Crewe on the origins of his #WalterScottPrize longlisted debut novel, THE NEW LIFE
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'He was in jail at 18 for objecting to WWI. It took courage in that society at that time to stand up and declare your opposition to all that jingoism.' Learn more about Alan Spence's #WalterScottPrize longlisted MISTER TIMELESS BLYTH (Tuttle Publishing): japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/0…

'It's not until he leaves the field that he realises he's left his twin behind.' Discover Stephen Daisley's #WalterScottPrize longlisted A BETTER PLACE (Text Publishing), following brothers into the world war that will separate them. rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

'These two women, who both claimed to have visions of Christ...couldn’t be more different from one other.' Learn the amazing history behind Victoria MacKenzie's #WalterScottPrize longlisted FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN (@BloomsburyBooks)
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