Walter Scott Prize

Winners and shortlist

2010

• Sarah Dunant for Sacred Hearts — 16th-century Italian convent
• Adam Foulds for The Quickening Maze — John Clare and Alfred Tennyson
• Robert Harris for Lustrum — Cicero
• Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall — Thomas Cromwell
• Simon Mawer for The Glass Room — 1930s Czech
• Iain Pears for Stone's Fall — early 20th-century mystery/thriller
• Adam Thorpe for Hodd — Robin Hood

  2011

• Andrea Levy for The Long Song — 1820s Jamaica
• Tom McCarthy for C — turn of the 20th-century Europe
• David Mitchell for The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet — late 18th-century Shogun Japan
• Joseph O'Connor for Ghost Light — 20th-century England and Ireland
• C. J. Sansom for Heartstone — England during the summer of 1545
• Andrew Williams for To Kill A Tsar — St Petersburg around the turn of the 20th century

  2012

• Sebastian Barry, On Canaan's Side — 20th-century Ireland and Chicago
• Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers — Oregon and California in 1851
• Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues — World War II-era Europe
• Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child — World War I-era Europe
• Andrew Miller, Pure — Paris in 1786
• Barry Unsworth, The Quality of Mercy — London of 1767 and a Durham coastal mining village

  2013

• Pat Barker, Toby's Room — WWI
• Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists — 1940s and '50s Malaya
• Thomas Keneally, The Daughters of Mars — WWI
• Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies — Tudor England
• Anthony Quinn, The Streets — 1880s London
• Rose Tremain, — 1680s England

  2014

• Kate Atkinson, Life After Life — during the 20th century
• Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries — New Zealand gold rush of the 19th century
• Jim Crace, Harvest — remote English village following the Enclosure Act in the 18th century
• Andrew Greig, Fair Helen — 1590s in the Borderland of Scotland and England
• Robert Harris, An Officer and a Spy — Dreyfus Affair, which took place in France in the late 1890s
• Ann Weisgarber, The Promise — 1900 Galveston hurricane

  2015

• Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest — Europe during World War II
• Helen Dunmore, The Lie — England during WWI
• Hermione Eyre, Viper Wine — England in the 17th century
• Adam Foulds, In the Wolf's Mouth — Italy in World War II
• Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer — India in the early 20th century
• Kamila Shamsie, A God in Every Stone — India during WWI
• John Spurling, The Ten Thousand Things — China in the 14th century

  2016

• William Boyd, Sweet Caress — 20th century global
• Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter — early 20th century Saskatchewan
• Gavin McCrea, Mrs Engels — 19th century England
• Allan Massie, End Games in Bordeaux — France WWII
• Simon Mawer, Tightrope — France WWII
• Lucy Treloar, Salt Creek — mid-19th century Australia

  2017

• Jo Baker, A Country Road, A Tree — WWII France
• Sebastian Barry, Days Without End — US Civil War
• Charlotte Hobson, The Vanishing Futurist — Russia early Soviet era
• Hannah Kent, The Good People — 19th century Ireland
• Francis Spufford, Golden Hill — 18th century New York
• Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday — 30 March 1924
• Rose Tremain, The Gustav Sonata — Switzerland during WWII

  2018

• Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach — WWII New York
• Jane Harris, Sugar Money — 18thC Martinique and Grenada
• Paul Lynch, Grace — 19thC Ireland
• Patrick McGrath, The Wardrobe Mistress — 1940s London
• Rachel Malik, Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves — WWII
• Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole — Yorkshire 18thC

  2019

• Peter Carey, A Long Way From Home — 1950s Australia
• Cressida Connolly, After The Party — 1938 England
• Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind — 1491
• Andrew Miller, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free — 1809 Spain
• Michael Ondaatje, Warlight — 1945 London
• Robin Robertson, The Long Take — American, post WWII

  2020

• Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Narrow Land — 1950s, Cape Cod
• Isabella Hammad, The Parisian — pre-WWI, Europe, Palestine
• James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time — 14th century, England
• Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay — 1878, London
• Tim Pears, The Redeemed — WWI, West Country, England
• Marguerite Poland, A Sin Of Omission — late 19th century, South Africa and England