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FOUR books from Australia are among the contenders for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, with the announcement coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the author’s birth. The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed yesterday. Two of the Australian books are not yet published in the UK. Settings of the books on the list range from Tudor, Victorian and Edwardian England to Borneo, Tasmania, Indonesia, Japan, the US, Russia and East Africa. The 2021 prize was open to books published in the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth during 2020. Those i...

The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed on Tuesday. This year’s longlist includes four books from Australia, two of which are not yet published in the UK. Hinton, by Mark Blacklock (Granta) The Tolstoy Estate, by Steven Conte (HarperCollins Australia) The Year Without Summer, by Guinevere Glasfurd (Two Roads) A Room Made Of Leaves, by Kate Grenville (Canongate UK, Text Publishing Australia) Mr Beethoven, by Paul Griffiths (Henningham Family Press) Afterlives, by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury) A Treacherous Country, by K L Kruimink (Allen & Unwin Australia) ...