Walter Scott Prize longlist

       They've announced the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction -- fifteen titles, including ones by authors such as Martin Amis and Damon Galgut.
       They note that:

In a change to prize protocol this year, the longlist is made public for the first time.

       Alas, they don't reveal the pool of 124 entries the longlisted titles were selected from (as they really should).