Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction — Complete Winners List

15 years of winners · The Abbotsford Trust · Since 2010 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	The Land in Winter	Andrew Miller	Sceptre
2024	Hungry Ghosts	Kevin Jared Hosein	Bloomsbury
2023	These Days	Lucy Caldwell	Faber & Faber
2022	News of the Dead	James Robertson	Hamish Hamilton
2021	The Mirror & the Light	Hilary Mantel	Fourth Estate
2020	The Narrow Land	Christine Dwyer Hickey	Atlantic Books
2019	The Long Take	Robin Robertson	Picador
2018	The Gallows Pole	Ben Myers	Bluemoose Books
2017	Days Without End	Sebastian Barry	Faber & Faber
2016	Tightrope	Simon Mawer	Little, Brown
2015	The Ten Thousand Things	John Spurling	Overlook Press
2014	An Officer and a Spy	Robert Harris	Hutchinson
2012	On Canaan's Side	Sebastian Barry	Faber & Faber
2011	The Long Song	Andrea Levy	Headline Review
2010	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	Henry Holt and Co.