Walter Scott Prize Winners

The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction founded in 2010 rewards "writing of exceptional quality with a setting of Sixty Years since" (i.e. major

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Winners

News of the Dead

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3.90 avg rating — 310 ratings
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2022)
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The Mirror & the Light (Tho...

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4.39 avg rating — 34,646 ratings
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2021)
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The Narrow Land

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3.81 avg rating — 1,007 ratings
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2020)
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The Long Take

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3.84 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2019)
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The Gallows Pole

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4.14 avg rating — 3,026 ratings
Walter Scott Prize (2018)
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Days Without End (Days With...

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3.97 avg rating — 22,261 ratings
Walter Scott Prize (2017)
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Tightrope (Marian Sutro, #2)

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3.77 avg rating — 2,395 ratings
Walter Scott Prize (2016)
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The Ten Thousand Things

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3.76 avg rating — 177 ratings
Walter Scott Prize (2015)
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An Officer and a Spy

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4.20 avg rating — 26,149 ratings
Walter Scott Prize (2014)
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The Garden of Evening Mists

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4.13 avg rating — 23,218 ratings
Walter Scott Prize (2013)
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On Canaan's Side (Dunne Fam...

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3.86 avg rating — 5,234 ratings
Walter Scott Prize (2012)
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The Long Song

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3.77 avg rating — 9,800 ratings
Walter Scott Prize (2011)
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell,...

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3.90 avg rating — 199,254 ratings
Walter Scott Prize (2010)
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nominees

Still Life

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4.18 avg rating — 43,890 ratings
Walter Scott Prize Nominee for Historical Fiction Longlist (2022)
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The Magician

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4.03 avg rating — 11,847 ratings
Walter Scott Prize Nominee for Historical Fiction Shortlist (2022)
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Learwife

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3.50 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Fortune

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4.10 avg rating — 156 ratings
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China Room

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3.79 avg rating — 7,636 ratings
Walter Scott Prize Nominee for Historical Fiction Longlist (2022)
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The Fortune Men

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3.82 avg rating — 4,098 ratings
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The Sunken Road

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4.03 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Ballad of Lord Edward a...

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Mrs England

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3.94 avg rating — 17,105 ratings
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Rose Nicolson

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4.20 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Snow Country

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3.73 avg rating — 3,046 ratings
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Blue Postcards

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4.08 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Islands of Mercy

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3.70 avg rating — 2,426 ratings
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A Treacherous Country

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3.67 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Afterlives

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3.83 avg rating — 6,464 ratings
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Mr Beethoven

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3.55 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Year Without Summer

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3.47 avg rating — 303 ratings
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