My wee book is on a big list! Announced today is the 13 strong longlist of books for the very prestigious Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022 – Hilary Mantel won it last year! It is that big. And my book, Blue Postcards, has found its way onto the list. Look at the other books and the other writers on the list, every one of them… this is great company to be in! And these other books are pretty amazing… go read them.
Hopefully this listing will put my book in front of a lot more readers, which after all is what you want for a book!
https://www.walterscottprize.co.uk/2022-longlist-revealed/
2022 longlist revealed
7th February, 2022
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has announced its 2022 longlist.
Thirteen novels are in contention for the £25,000 prize, with settings spanning from the 8th century BC up to the 1960s, and from all four nations of the United Kingdom to Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, the West Indies and the Punjab.
The longlist is:
BLUE POSTCARDS Douglas Bruton (Fairlight Books)
SNOW COUNTRY Sebastian Faulks (Hutchinson Heinemann)
ROSE NICHOLSON Andrew Greig (Riverrun)
MRS ENGLAND Stacey Halls (Manilla Press)
THE BALLAD OF LORD EDWARD AND CITIZEN SMALL Neil Jordan (Lilliput Press)
THE SUNKEN ROAD Ciaràn McMenamin (Harvill Secker)
THE FORTUNE MEN Nadifa Mohamed (Viking)
NEWS OF THE DEAD James Robertson (Hamish Hamilton)
CHINA ROOM Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker)
FORTUNE Amanda Smyth (Peepal Tree Press)
LEARWIFE J.R Thorp (Canongate)
THE MAGICIAN Colm Tóibín (Viking)
STILL LIFE Sarah Winman (Fourth Estate)
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