Levy, Mitchell on Walter Scott shortlist

Publication Date: Fri, 01/04/2011 - 11:14 Six titles spanning imperial Japan to 19th-century Jamaica have been shortlisted for the second Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction, worth £25,000. Andrea Levy's The Long Song (Headline Review) and Tom McCarthy's C (Jonathan Cape) both shortlisted for last year's Man Booker Prize, were both on the list, alongside David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Sceptre), Ghostlight by Joseph O' Connor (Harvill Secker), Heartstone by C J Sansom (Mantle) and To Kill a Tsar by Andrew Williams (John Murray). read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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