YouTube video by Walter Scott Prizes

YouTube video by Walter Scott Prizes

Alice Jolly and Rachel Seiffert discusses their novels 'The Matchbox Girl' and 'Once the Deed is Done' with Angela Findlay.

‘How dare we predict the behaviour of man?’ wrote Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and holocaust survivor, and author of Man’s Search for Meaning. His quote is at the front of Alice Jolly’s The…

A prestigious historical fiction prize has revealed its first all-British shortlist

Judge and acclaimed novelist Katharine Grant introduces us to the novels shortlisted for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Local author Alice Jolly’s new novel is a stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a young girl’s battle for survival and the search for truth in Nazi Vienna.

Reading, writing, and good books – with LUCY MANGAN and ALICE JOLLY Might you be someone who comes alive when you pull a new book off the shelf, stays up late reading just one more page, and packs the...

Join us for four fabulous days of talks, comedy, live music, food & drink, and much, much more…

The shortlist for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been announced from Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott and the Prize, in a video narrated by James Naughtie. For the f...

Local author Alice Jolly’s new novel is a stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a young girl’s battle for survival and the search for truth in Nazi Vienna.

Who can enter? Anybody aged 11 to 19, resident in the United Kingdom. The Young Walter Scott Prize is awarded to winners of the 11 to 15-year-old category and the 16 to 19-year-old category.   What ca...

The winners of the 2025 Young Walter Scott Prize have been announced! First place in the 11-15 years category is Tasbih Sharuar (above left), whose delightful story The Man From Drury Lane takes us to...

Walter Scott Prize winners, shortlists, longlists and Academy recommendations.

The Abbotsford Trust has announced the Longlist for the seventeenth Prize.  The twelve books on the Longlist for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize are: VENETIAN VESPERS John Banville (Faber & Faber) THE TWO...

Barr returns with a fictional retelling of the lives of The Two Roberts – two gay artists turned celebrities that time forgot.

The longlist for the The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2026 was announced yesterday. As a huge fan of historical fiction, this is always an exciting moment, seeing books I've loved appear on the list or discovering new titles. This year I've read eight of the twelve books on the list. One (The Artist) is in my TBR pile and the remaining three (