The shortlist for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize has been announced, with six books in the running for the £25,000 award for historical fiction.
The winner is usually announced in June at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose but this has been postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
How the announcement will be made is now being reviewed. The judges said: “In times of crisis, historical fiction is both reassurance – nothing is completely new – and escape so it’s with almost medicinal pleasure that we unveil the 11th Walter Scott Prize shortlist which offers, we hope, a measure of both. “Six books from writers as varied as they are talented.