Resources
List of previous winners and shortlists
You can find a full list of the previous winners and shortlists since 2010 by clicking on this link: WSP previous winners and shortlists 2023
Walter Scott Prize 2024 Longlist media pack
You can download a press release, digital assets and logos here: Walter Scott Prize media pack
The Walter Scott Prize Readers’ Guides
Below are readers’ guides for all the winners of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. They feature information, questions and discussion points, some created by the authors themselves, to help individuals and book groups get inside the characters, stories and settings of the extraordinary novels which have won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction since its inception in 2010. We’d love you to download the guides and join the discussion at @waltscottprize and @walterscottprize!
2010 winner: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2011 winner: The Long Song by Andrea Levy
2012 winner: On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
2013 winner: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
2014 winner: An Officer and A Spy by Robert Harris
2015 winner: The Ten Thousand Things by John Spurling
2016 winner: Tightrope by Simon Mawer
2017 winner: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
2018 winner: The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
2019 winner: The Long Take by Robin Robertson
2020 winner: The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey
2021 winner: The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
2022 winner, News of the Dead by James Robertson
2023 winner, These Days by Lucy Caldwell
Tenth anniversary resource packs
To mark the Prize’s tenth anniversary in 2019, we created a press pack giving more information on the Prize and its history, which can be downloaded here, along with a poster celebrating the ten winning books.