*Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2024 Longlist* Lovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place. "In Mister Timeless Blyth, writer Alan Spence has created a fascinating (auto) biography, convincingly in R.H. Blyth's own voice. In it, he has conveyed the haiku scholar's love of music, eastern and western literature,...