Mercia's Take: Winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2023

Daniel Wiles

• Mercia's Take was picked as one of the top ten debuts of 2022 by the Observer

• The Times has called him a 'formidable new talent', and there is much more to come

• A stunning debut novel set in the Black Country in the 1870s, about a miner who comes across a seam of gold

• Like Ian McGuire’s The North Water, it is intense and atmosopheric, but with a thumping plot

• Daniel won the Booker Prize Scholarship at UEA, and is from Walsall, where the novel is set