MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee’s novel How We Disappeared has been longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. The twelve books on the longlist are:
THE NARROW LAND by Christine Dwyer Hickey (Atlantic)
THE PARISIAN by Isabella Hammad (Jonathan Cape)
HOW WE DISAPPEARED by Jing-Jing Lee (OneWorld)
TO CALAIS, IN ORDINARY TIME by James Meek (Canongate)
THE OFFING by Benjamin Myers (Bloomsbury)
THE WARLOW EXPERIMENT by Alix Nathan (Serpent’s Tail)
SHADOWPLAY by Joseph O’Connor (Harvill Secker)
THE REDEEMED by Tim Pears (Bloomsbury)
A SIN OF OMISSION by Marguerite Poland (Penguin South Africa)
ONCE UPON A RIVER by Diane Setterfield (Doubleday)
THIS IS HAPPINESS by Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)
THE HIDING GAME by Naomi Wood (Picador)
From the announcement:
“The judges said:
“In its eleventh year, with more submissions than ever before, the 2020 Walter Scott Prize longlist reflects the energy and dynamism of modern historical fiction, a genre presenting authors with very particular challenges and delights. As always with our longlist, readers will find themselves in all kinds of places in all kinds of centuries, both in the company of familiar authors and hearing newer voices. It’s a privilege to bring these books to wider attention through the prize. So much to savour, so much to think about and, most importantly, so much to enjoy.”
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