Ten years of exceptional fiction
17th October, 2019
To celebrate the prize’s tenth anniversary, we have put together a set of readers’ guides and a poster featuring the ten winning books, to help readers and book groups explore and discuss this exceptional fiction. The readers’ guides feature questions and discussion points, some from the authors themselves, to help you get inside the characters, stories and settings of the ten extraordinary novels which have won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction since 2010. To delve more deeply into some of the finest novels of the last ten years, download the guides and the poster below and join the discussion at @waltscottprize and @walterscottprize!
The Walter Scott Prize Readers’ Guides
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
