Val on shortlist for this year’s Portico Prize
Val is on the shortlist for this year’s Portico Prize
For this year’s Portico Prize, in the fiction section, the shortlist includes AS Byatt for her novel Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, a story about Norse mythology set during World War II, Joan Bakewell for her She’s Leaving Home, a novel set in 1960s Liverpool, and previous winner Val McDermid for her 25th detective novel, The Retribution.