GLORIOUS EXPLOITS longlisted for 2025 Walter Scott Prize

The longlist for the sixteenth Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been announced by The Abbotsford Trust, and Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits is on it!

The twelve novels contending for the £25,000 Prize are:

Chair of Judges, Katie Grant, said:

“It has been exciting to read the diverse crop of novels on the WSP 2025 Longlist. We’ve discovered little-known aspects of our collective pasts, experienced excesses of human behaviour, and been placed so authentically in the middle of the action that we’ve felt part of the action. We’re delighted to celebrate debut and emerging writers published by small presses, as well as more established authors and publishers. 

With two new judges on board, including one of the first winners of the Young Walter Scott Prize, we look forward to testing these novels against the Prize criteria of originality, innovation, longevity and quality, and then debating the merits of all twelve books and choosing our Shortlist later this spring.”

A Shortlist will be chosen by the judges and announced on 15 April, and the winner will be announced at the Borders Book Festival and at Abbotsford between 12 and 15 June.