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Mawer wins Walter Scott Prize

British author Simon Mawer has won the £25,000 (A$49,170) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his 10th novel Tightrope (Little, Brown). The judges described Mawer’s novel as ‘a spy story in the grand tradition, sweeping the reader irresistibly into the harrowing life of a secret agent in World War Two’. ‘Impeccably researched, it perfectly inhabits its time and place,’ they said. Tightrope was chosen from a shortlist of six novels, which included Lucy Treloar’s Salt Creek (Picador). The Walter Scott Prize is funded by the Duke of Buccleuch, a relative of historical novelist Walter Scott, and is open to any book in English published in the previous year that is set at least 60 years prior. For more information, visit the website here.

 

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