Islands of Mercy by UEA alumna Rose Tremain has been longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which is worth £25,000 to the winner. The novel was published by Chatto & Windus last year. Rose graduated from UEA with a BA in English in 1967 and later returned to the university to teach on the Creative Writing MA and, more recently, to become the University’s first female Chancellor. She was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2007. Among her many acclaimed novels are Music and Silence (1999), which won the Whitbread Novel Award, and The Road Home, which won the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her previous novel, The Gustav Sonata, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize, the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. Her memoir Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life was published in 2019. The shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize will be announced at the end of April, and the winner in mid-June.
Rose Tremain longlisted for Walter Scott Prize
