Four talented authors have been shortlisted for Scotland’s largest literary prize, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award, in partnership with Creative Scotland.
Selected from a long list of 17 category finalists, the winners of each of the Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and First Book awards will receive £5,000. All four authors now go on to compete for the Scottish Book of the Year accolade and the chance to win a further £25,000, a total prize of £30,000 – Scotland’s largest literary prize, and one of the largest in the UK.