Dame Hilary Mantel
23rd September, 2022
The founders and judges of the Walter Scott Prize are profoundly saddened by the death of Hilary Mantel. Dame Hilary won the Prize twice; for Wolf Hall in the Prize’s inaugural year, and for The Mirror and the Light in 2021. She leaves behind a quite extraordinary body of work, but will be remembered above all for her trilogy about… Read More »
Prizes celebrated in live events at Borders Book Festival
1st September, 2022
The Walter Scott and Young Walter Scott Prizes were back in force at the Borders Book Festival this June, with Melrose’s Harmony Garden buzzing with the bookish excitement of being back together in person for the first time since 2019. The announcement of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is one of the key… Read More »