LibGuides: Walter Scott Prize: 2010-2019

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Walter Scott Prize
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2010-2019

2010

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall #1) by Hilary Mantel
Call Number: FIC MANTE HIL W1 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780805080681
Publication Date: 2009-10-13
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
Wolf Hall [CD] (Wolf Hall #1) by Hilary Mantel; Simon Slater (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction MA (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781427210166
Publication Date: 2009-11-24

Sacred Hearts by Sara Dunant
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
Lustrum by Robert Harris
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Hodd by Adam Thorpe

2011

The Long Song by Andrea Levy

The Long Song [Kindle] by Andrea Levy
Call Number: Kindle-0723 (Request at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9780374192174
Publication Date: 2010-04-27
The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her "Marguerite." Resourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress. Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the violent and chaotic end of slavery. Taught to read and write so that she can help her mistress run the business, July remains bound to the plantation despite her "freedom." It is the arrival of a young English overseer, Robert Goodwin, that will dramatically change life in the great house for both July and her mistress. Prompted and provoked by her son's persistent questioning, July's resilience and heartbreak are gradually revealed in this extraordinarily powerful story of slavery, revolution, freedom, and love.

C by Tom McCarthy
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor
Heartstone by C. J. Sansom
To Kill a Tsar by Andrew Williams

C [Kindle] by Tomy McCarthy
Call Number: FIC MCART TOM C Kindle (Request at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9780307594457
Publication Date: 2010
Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he's recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful, and perhaps fateful, climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Call Number: FIC MITCH DAV TH (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781400065455
Publication Date: 2010-06-29
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire's single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob's original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, "Who ain't a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?"

2012

On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry

On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
Call Number: FIC BARRY SEB ON (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780143122180
Publication Date: 2012-08-28
Told in the first person, this narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of World War I, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, her story unfolds as Lilly tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched.

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Pure by Andrew Miller
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Call Number: Fiction D523s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062041265
Publication Date: 2011-04-26
When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.

2013

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Call Number: FIC ENG TANT G (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781602861800
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp. Aritomo refuses but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice "until the monsoon comes." Then she can design a garden for herself. As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to the gardener and his art, while all around them a communist guerilla war rages. But the Garden of Evening Mists remains a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and how did he come to leave Japan? And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all?

Toby's Room by Pat Barker
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Streets by Anthony Quinn
Merivel : a Man of His Time by Rose Tremain

The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Call Number: FIC KENEA THO D (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781476734613
Publication Date: 2013-08-20
In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their fathers farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Though they are used to tending the sick, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first on a hospital ship near Gallipoli, then on the Western Front. Yet amid the carnage, the sisters become the friends they never were at home and find themselves courageous in the face of extreme danger and also the hostility from some on their own side. There is great bravery, humor, and compassion, too, and the inspiring example of the remarkable women they serve alongside. In France, where Naomi nurses in a hospital set up by the eccentric Lady Tarlton while Sally works in a casualty clearing station, each meets an exceptional man: the kind of men for whom they might give up some of their newfound independence if only they all survive.

Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Call Number: Fiction M292b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780805090031
Publication Date: 2012-05-08
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle.
Bring up the Bodies [CD] by Hilary Mantel; Simon Vance (Read by); Jane Carr (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction MA (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781427225825
Publication Date: 2012-05-08

2014

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris

An Officer and a Spy [E-Book] by Robert Harris
Call Number: FIC HARRI ROB OF Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780385349598
Publication Date: 2014
A whistle-blower. A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris. Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stripped of his rank. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, an ambitious military officer who believes in Dreyfus's guilt as staunchly as any member of the public. But when he is promoted to head of the French counter-espionage agency, Picquart finds evidence that a spy still remains at large in the military--indicating that Dreyfus is innocent.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Harvest by Jim Crace
Fair Helen by Andrew Greig
The Promise by Ann Weisgarber

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
Call Number: Fiction A8759L v.1 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316176484
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original -- this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
Life after Life [CD] by Kate Atkinson; Fenella Woolgar (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction AT (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781619696969
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
Life After Life [E-Book] by Kate Atkinson
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781619699557
Publication Date: 2013

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Call Number: Fiction C369L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316074315
Publication Date: 2013-10-15
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky.

Harvest [Kindle] by Jim Crace
Call Number: Kindle-0491 (Request at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9780385536905
Publication Date: 2013
On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. But the sky is marred by two conspicuous columns of smoke, replacing pleasurable anticipation with alarm and suspicion. One smoke column is the result of an overnight fire that has damaged the master's outbuildings. The second column rises from the wooded edge of the village, sent up by newcomers to announce their presence. In the minds of the wary villagers a mere coincidence of events appears to be unlikely, with violent confrontation looming as the unavoidable outcome. Meanwhile, another newcomer has recently been spotted taking careful notes and making drawings of the land. It is his presence more than any other that will threaten the village's entire way of life.
Harvest [E-Book] by Jim Crace
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385536905
Publication Date: 2013

The Promise [Kindle] by Ann Weisgarber
Call Number: FIC WEISG ANN PR Kindle (Request at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9781629142364
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In desperation she agrees to marry him. But when Catherine travels to Oscar's farm on Galveston Island, Texas - a thousand miles from home - she finds she is little prepared for the life that awaits her.

2015

The Ten Thousand Things by John Spurling

The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
The Lie by Helen Dunmore
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
In the Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie

2016

Tightrope by Simon Mawer

Tightrope by Simon Mawer
Call Number: FIC MAWER SIM TI (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781590517239
Publication Date: 2015-11-03
As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrýuck concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesnt understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers.

Sweet Caress by William Boyd
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea
End Games in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar

Sweet Caress [E-Book] by William Boyd
Call Number: FIC BOYD WIL SW Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781632863348
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Born into Edwardian England, Amory's first memory is of her father standing on his head. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, who, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future. A spell at boarding school ends abruptly and Amory begins an apprenticeship with Greville in London, photographing socialites for the magazine Beau Monde. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love, and artistic expression will take her to the demi monde of Berlin of the late '20s, to New York of the '30s, to the blackshirt riots in London, and to France in the Second World War where she becomes one of the first women war photographers. Her desire for experience will lead Amory to further wars, to lovers, husbands, and children as she continues to pursue her dreams and battle her demons.

2017

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Call Number: FIC BARRY SEB D (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525427360
Publication Date: 2017-01-24
Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.

A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
The Good People by Hannah Kent
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

A Country Road, a Tree by Jo Baker
Call Number: FIC BAKER JO CO (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781101947180
Publication Date: 2016-05-17
When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. With him we experience the hardships yet stubborn vibrancy at the heart of Europe during the Nazis' rise to power; his friendships with James Joyce and other luminaries; his quietly passionate devotion to the Frenchwoman who will become his lifelong companion; his secret work for the French Resistance and narrow escapes from the Gestapo; his flight from occupied Paris to the countryside; and the rubble of his life after liberation. And through it all we are witness to workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language that will express his experience of this shattered world. Here is a remarkable story of survival and determination, and a portrait of the extremes of human experience alchemized into timeless art.

The Good People by Hannah Kent
Call Number: FIC KENT HAN GO (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316243964
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
Three women in nineteenth-century Ireland bond over a shared effort to rescue a child from a superstitious community that believes that his trauma-related inability to speak indicates that he is a changeling responsible for a series of misfortunes.

2018

The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers

The Gallows Pole by Myers, Benjamine
Call Number: FIC MYERS BEN G (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780997457858
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
An England divided. From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' - the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. A charismatic leader, Hartley cares for the poor and uses violence and intimidation against his opponents. He is also prone to self-delusion and strange visions of mythical creatures. When excise officer William Deighton vows to bring down the Coiners and one of their own becomes turncoat, Hartley's empire begins to crumble. With the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, the fate of his empire is under threat.

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Sugar Money by Jane Harris
Grace by Paul Lynch
The Wardrobe Mistress by Patrick, McGrath
Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: Fiction E28m (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781476716732
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family with the Great Depression underway. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: FIC EGAN JEN M Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781476716756
Publication Date: 2017-10-03

Grace by Paul Lynch
Call Number: FIC LYNCH PAU GR (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316316309
Publication Date: 2017-07-11
Early one October morning, Grace's mother snatches her from sleep and brutally cuts off her hair, declaring, "You are the strong one now." With winter close at hand and Ireland already suffering, Grace is no longer safe at home. And so her mother outfits her in men's clothing and casts her out. When her younger brother Colly follows after her, the two set off on a remarkable odyssey in the looming shadow of their country's darkest hour. The broken land they pass through reveals untold suffering as well as unexpected beauty. To survive, Grace must become a boy, a bandit, a penitent and, finally, a woman -- all the while afflicted by inner voices that arise out of what she has seen and what she has lost.

2019

The Long Take by Robin Robertson

The Long Take, or, A Way to Lose More Slowly by Robertson, Robin
Call Number: FIC ROBER ROB LO (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780525655213
Publication Date: 2018-11-20
A Canadian veteran of D-Day travels through New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, struggling with his memories of the war and experiencing firsthand America's postwar social and racial divisions. The story is told in verse and illustrations

A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
After the Party by Cressida Connolly
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
Call Number: FIC CAREY PET LO (Adult Fictin)
ISBN: 9780525520184
Publication Date: 2018
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed school teacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them, without warning, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, and then takes you some place else. It is often funny, more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves.

The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
Call Number: FIC HARVE SAM WE (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780802128287
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
The Western Wind is a riveting story of faith, guilt, and the freedom of confession. It's 1491. In the small village of Oakham, its wealthiest and most industrious resident, Tom Newman, is swept away by the river during the early hours of Shrove Saturday. Was it murder, suicide, or an accident? Narrated from the perspective of local priest John Reve--patient shepherd to his wayward flock--a shadowy portrait of the community comes to light through its residents' tortured revelations. As some of their darkest secrets are revealed, the intrigue of the unexplained death ripples through the congregation. But will Reve, a man with secrets of his own, discover what happened to Newman? And what will happen if he can't?

Warlight : a novel by Michael Ondaatje
Call Number: FIC ONDAA MIC W (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525521204
Publication Date: 2018
In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey--through facts, recollection, and imagination--that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
Warlight [CD] : a novel by Michael Ondaatje; Steve West (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction ON (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780525627517
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Warlight [E-Book] : a novel by Michael Ondaatje
Call Number: FIC ONDAA MIC W Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780525521204
Publication Date: 2018

Walter Scott Prize

Title Box

2010

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Sacred Hearts by Sara Dunant

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds

Lustrum by Robert Harris

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

Stone's Fall by Iain Pears

Hodd by Adam Thorpe

2011

The Long Song by Andrea Levy

C by Tom McCarthy

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor

Heartstone by C. J. Sansom

To Kill a Tsar by Andrew Williams

2012

On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

Pure by Andrew Miller

The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth

2013

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Toby's Room by Pat Barker

The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

The Streets by Anthony Quinn

Merivel : a Man of His Time by Rose Tremain

2014

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Harvest by Jim Crace

Fair Helen by Andrew Greig

The Promise by Ann Weisgarber

2015

The Ten Thousand Things by John Spurling

The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

The Lie by Helen Dunmore

Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre

In the Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds

Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut

A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie

2016

Tightrope by Simon Mawer

Sweet Caress by William Boyd

A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale

Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea

End Games in Bordeaux by Allan Massie

Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar

2017

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker

The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson

The Good People by Hannah Kent

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift

The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

2018

The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Sugar Money by Jane Harris

Grace by Paul Lynch

The Wardrobe Mistress by Patrick, McGrath

Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik

2019

The Long Take by Robin Robertson

A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey

After the Party by Cressida Connolly

The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje