Daisley on Walter Scott longlist; Forge promoted at A&U; Overland, Island prize winners

In local news this week, Allen & Unwin has promoted Samantha Forge to associate publisher—books for children and young adults, the Conversation has launched a books and ideas newsletter, and Aotearoa New Zealand author Stephen Daisley has been longlisted for the UK's Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for A Better...