HINTON by Mark Blacklock is longlisted for the 2021 Walter Scott Prize

Mark Blacklock's second novel, HINTON, is based on the life of British mathemetician Howard Hinton. In the novel, Hinton and his family are living in Japan, escaping from a scandal. In a bravura and startling meeting of real and philosophical elements, Mark Blacklock creates a ravishing period piece of late-Victorian social, scientific and domestic life.

The Walter Scott Prize longlist this year includes four books from Australia, two of which are not yet published in the UK. Settings range from Tudor, Victorian and Edwardian England to Borneo, Tasmania, Indonesia, Japan, the USA, Russia and East Africa.  The 2021 Prize was open to books published in the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth during 2020.  You can find out more about the longlist here.

Our shortlist will be announced at the end of April, and a winner announced in mid-June. Because of the postponement of the Borders Book Festival this year the winner will be announced online and through media.

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