The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

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The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 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.

BOOK SNAPS reads from the 2022 list:
2022 Longlist: Learwife by J R Thorp Published by Allen and Unwin
2022 Shortlistlist: The Magician by Colm Toibin Published by Simon & Schuster
2022 Longlist: Mrs England by Stacey Halls Published by Allen and Unwin
2022 Winner: News of the Dead by James Robertson
2022 Longlist: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota Published Penguin
BOOK SNAPS reads from previous years’ lists:
2021 Longlist: A Treacherous Country by Kate Kruimink Published 2020 Allen & Unwin
2021 Shortlist: A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville Published by Text Publishing
2020 Longlist: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield Publisher: Penguin
2019 Winner: The Long Take by Robin Robertson Publisher: Pan Macmillan
2019 Shortlist: After The Party by Cressida Connolly Published by Penguin
2016 Shortlist: Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar Published by Pan Macmillan
2011 Shortlist: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Published: Penguin Random House | Hodder & Stoughton
2021 Longlist The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd Published by Two Roads (Imprint of HachetteUK) and Hachette Australia
2020 Longlist: The Warlow Exoeriment by Alix Nathan Published by Penguin Random House. Allen and Unwin Serpent’s Tail
2020 Shortlist: Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor Published by Penguin Random House.
2019 Shortlist: The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey Publisher: Penguin and Grove Atlantic
2018 Longlist: Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore Publisher: Penguin
2015 Longlist: The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry Faber and Penguin Random House
2021 Shortlist: The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte Published by Harper Collins
2020 Longlist: The Redeemed (The West Country Trilogy #3) by Tim Pears Published 2019 Bloomsbury
2019 Longlist: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Publisher: Serpent’s Tail 
2019 Shortlist: Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller Publisher: Hachette
2018 Shortlist: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan Publisher: Simon & Schuster
2013 Winner: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng Published by Hatchett Book Group.