Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

The Walter Scott Prize celebrates quality of writing in the English language, and is open to novels published in the previous year in the UK, Ireland or the Commonwealth.

Updated September 13, 2024
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Hungry ghosts : a novel
Hosein, Kevin Jared
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION "This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear...
The new life : a novel
Crewe, Tom
Paper Book
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, the Sunday Times Young Writer Award, the Betty Trask Prize, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Los...
My father's house
O'Connor, Joseph
Paper Book
From best-selling author Joseph O'Connor comes a gripping and atmospheric World War II literary thriller set in occupied Rome. A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE Inspired by the true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty,...
Absolutely and forever
Tremain, Rose
Paper Book
'I can't think of any novel that has described the anguish, comedy and intensity of first love as well as Absolutely & Forever ... this may be her masterpiece' Amanda Craig A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living...
The house of doors
Tan, Twan Eng
Paper Book
The third novel from the Booker-shortlisted author exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang
A better place
Daisley, Stephen
Paper Book
The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, different boy but a good rugby player. Bit of a mental case, they said, but Roy would have none of it. He always stayed close to Tony when they...
For thy great pain have mercy on my little pain
MacKenzie, Victoria
Paper Book
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent 'Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done' THE TIMES, Book of the Month 'A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart' MAX PORTER
Cuddy
Myers, Benjamin
Paper Book
**Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023** **Shortlisted for the Winston Graham Historical Prize** **Chosen as a book of the year 2023 by The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and New Statesman** 'An epic the north has long deserved'...
The fraud
Smith, Zadie
Paper Book
The New York Times bestseller * One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year * One of NPR's Best Books of the Year * Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and BookPage * One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023 "[A] brilliant...
In the upper country
Thomas, Kai
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023'Fresh and propulsive . . . a testament to the power of story and a veneration of those whose...

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