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
Hosein, Kevin Jared
Paper Book
_____________________________ * A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK FOR 2023 * * WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 * 'A shimmering slice of Trinidadian gothic' THE TIMES 'An...
The new life : a novel
Crewe, Tom
Paper Book
'It was as if this man in front of him were an invisible door and he was paused on the threshold' Discover Tom Crewe's magnificent debut novel about desire and the search for freedom in Victorian England . . . * Featured in The Observer 10...
My father's house
O'Connor, Joseph
Paper Book
September 1943- German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain. An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest state, a neutral,...
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
People in the district would often say Roy Mitchell was not quite the same after he come back from the war. There was a twin brother, Tony. Killed on Crete in 1941. The hut he built when he returned was on a bit of flat ground above the Mangawhero Creek. He called it his whare....
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
Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests- literature, justice, abolitionism,...
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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