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Walter Scott

September 2023

  • The Treatment by Sarah Moorhead, The Gran Tour by Ben Aitken, Lote by Shola von Reinhold.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August

    Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

December 2021

  • A selection of Charlotte Brontë's 'little books', which form part of Honresfield library collection

    Rescued library of literary treasures evokes closeness to authors

  • Robert Burns' First Commonplace Book, from the Honresfield Library auction at Sotheby's.

    Lost library of literary treasures saved for UK after charity raises £15m

June 2020

  • detail from Cape Cod Morning (1950) by Edward Hopper.

    Fictional portrait of Jo and Edward Hopper wins Walter Scott prize

    £25,000 award for the year’s best historical novel goes to Christine Dwyer Hickey’s The Narrow Land, which depicts the artists’ marriage

June 2017

  • A buggy or pram in a hallway. "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall" according to Cyril Connolly, author and critic. Commissioned

    Point of view
    Benjamin Markovits: 'Parenthood has changed. And so has the literature that comes out of it'

    On Father’s Day a parent and novelist asks if the ‘pram in the hall’ is quite the obstacle to literary success it used to be

August 2016

  • 'Trainspotting' Film - 1996<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by c.Miramax/Everett/REX (765060t) 'Trainspotting', Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller 'Trainspotting' Film - 1996

    Books blog
    What's your favourite Scottish novel – and is it on the BBC's list?

    The broadcaster is putting 30 books chosen by an expert panel to a public vote to find Scotland’s favourite book. Let us know what you make of the selection

June 2016

  • Simon Mawer.

    Simon Mawer's Tightrope wins Walter Scott prize for historical fiction

    Drama of concentration camp survivor, set in 1950s London, praised by judges as ‘a spy story in the grand tradition’

April 2016

  • Statue of Aristotle

    Brief letters
    Spellings only a poet would understand

    Brief letters: WB Yeats’ Aristotle | Walter Scott’s cauliflowers | Global warming | Logo T-shirts

December 2015

  • A still from series five of Game of Thrones.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 modern medieval tales

    From George RR Martin to Umberto Eco, many writers have been inspired by stories of the middle ages. Here are some of the best, writes Carolyne Larrington

May 2015

  • Oxford skyline.

    Misplaced: why do novelists disguise real locations?

    Whether to spare local feelings, to emphasise that their stories are fiction, or to license fanciful embroidering, writers love to hide the actual settings of their work

July 2014

  • Scott Monument in Edinburgh

    Books blog
    Sir Walter Scott's Waverley at 200 is not yet old

    Stuart Kelly: Very many readers assume his books are dusty relics, but there are still plenty of reasons to read him

June 2014

  • Dartmoor

    Top 10s
    William Atkins's top 10 books of the moor

    The best, 'peat-slathered', writers on the dark stories and stark geography of these inhospitable regions

January 2014

  • Braveheart

    Scotland and England: we need each other, in sickness and in health

    Martin Woollacott
    Martin Woollacott: Divorce is never easy, and the English value the Scots far more than they will ever let on. Let's not go into this hastily

November 2013

  • Penguin Classics

    The 100 best novels
    How to choose the 100 best novels

    I'm only a tenth of the way through my Guardian/Observer list, and as I revisit old favourites from week to week I find my contemporary verdict refracted through past readings

January 2013

  • Botticelli's Birth of Venus reworked on the website annautopiagiordano.it

    The Northerner
    Walter Scott's poems and Turner's paintings celebrated in an exhibition at the Bowes Museum

    The writer set one of his epics in the area, and the painter returned again and again to paint the landscape. Both will have enjoyed the painting of 'Venus's backside' that spent a century in Teesdale. Alan Sykes treads carefully

October 2012

  • Climbing in the lake district in winter.

    The Northerner
    Lake District climbers prepare for Castle Rock endgame

    A slab the size of a bungalow has moved outwards from a deep crack in the famous climbing citadel between Ambleside and Keswick. John Appleby reports on warnings that it could fall soon.

September 2012

  • Alexander Pope

    Books blog
    Internet sock-puppeteers could learn from some illustrious forebears

    Examples of self-reviewing set by Alexander Pope and Walter Scott show the likes of RJ Ellory how it should be done

May 2012

  • Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

    Unpicking the past masters: what makes a 'historical novel'?

    Stuart Kelly: The genre is 'not exactly jammed with greatness', according to one critic. Not true, there are tales that are truly great

December 2011

  • Yorkshire wine

    The Northerner
    Chateau Doncaster serves up its 2010 vintage wines

    The Yorkshire town which invented butterscotch now offers a range of tipples - red, white and sparkling - to sip while you munch and crunch

June 2011

  • Andrea Levy

    Andrea Levy wins Walter Scott prize

    The Long Song takes £25,000 award for historical fiction
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