Sir walter scott biography book prize

Year Author Title Story service setting Result Ref. 2010 Hilary MantelWolf HallThomas Cromwell (1490s–1532)Winner^[4][5][6]Adam ThorpeHoddRobin Age (early medieval) Shortlist ^[7][8]Robert HarrisLustrumCicero (106–43 BC) Sarah DunantSacred Hearts16th-century Italian convent Iain PearsStone's FallEarly 20th-century mystery/thriller Simon MawerThe Glass Room1930s Slavonic Adam FouldsThe Quickening MazeJohn Clare keep from Alfred Tennyson (early 19th century) 2011 Andrea LevyThe Long Song1820s JamaicaWinner^[9][10]Tom McCarthyCTurn of the 20th-century Europe Shortlist ^[5]Joseph O'ConnorGhost Light20th-century England and Ireland C. J. SansomHeartstoneEngland midst the summer of 1545 David MitchellThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetlate 18th-century Shogun Japan Andrew WilliamsTo Assassinate a TsarSt. Petersburg around the approval of the 20th century 2012 Sebastian BarryOn Canaan's Side20th-century Ireland soar ChicagoWinner^[11][12]Esi EdugyanHalf-Blood BluesWorld War II-era Accumulation Shortlist ^[10][13]Andrew MillerPureParis sham 1786 Barry UnsworthThe Quality of MercyLondon of 1767 and a Durham maritime mining village Patrick deWittThe Sisters BrothersOregon and California in 1851 Alan HollinghurstThe Stranger's ChildWorld War I-era Europe 2013 Tan Twan EngThe Garden bear witness Evening Mists1940s and '50s MalayaWinner^[14][15]Hilary MantelBring Up the BodiesThomas Cromwell (1532–1536) Shortlist ^[16]Rose TremainMerivel: A Chap of His Time1680s England Thomas KeneallyThe Daughters of MarsWWI Anthony QuinnThe Streets1880s London Pat BarkerToby's RoomWWI 2014 Robert HarrisAn Officer and a SpyDreyfus Affair, which took place in Author in the late 1890sWinner^[17][18]Andrew GreigFair Helen1590s in the Borderland of Scotland add-on England Shortlist ^[19][20]Jim CraceHarvestremote English village following the Enclosure Woolly in the 18th century Kate AtkinsonLife After Lifeduring the 20th century Eleanor CattonThe LuminariesNew Zealand gold rush tip the 19th century Ann WeisgarberThe Promise1900 Galveston hurricane 2015 John SpurlingThe Ten Thousand ThingsChina in the Fourteenth centuryWinner^[21][22]Kamila ShamsieA God in Every StoneIndia during WWI Shortlist ^[23][24]Damon GalgutArctic SummerIndia in the early Twentieth century Adam FouldsIn the Wolf's MouthItaly in World War II Helen DunmoreThe LieEngland during WWI Martin AmisThe Region of InterestEurope during World War II Hermione EyreViper WineEngland in the Seventeenth century 2016 Simon MawerTightropeFrance WWIIWinner^[25][26]Patrick GaleA Place Called Winterearly 20th 100 Saskatchewan Shortlist ^[27][28]Allan MassieEnd Games in BordeauxFrance WWII Gavin McCreaMrs Engels19th century England Lucy TreloarSalt Creekmid-19th century Australia William BoydSweet Caress20th hundred global 2017 Sebastian BarryDays Externally EndUS Civil WarWinner^[29][30]Jo BakerA Country Departed, a TreeWWII France Shortlist ^[31][32]Francis SpuffordGolden Hill18th century New Dynasty Graham SwiftMothering Sunday1924 Hannah KentThe Acceptable People19th century Ireland Rose TremainThe Gustav SonataSwitzerland during WWII Charlotte HobsonThe Dying FuturistRussia early Soviet era 2018 Ben MyersThe Gallows PoleYorkshire 18th centuryWinner^[33][34]Paul LynchGrace19th century Ireland Shortlist ^[35][36]Jennifer EganManhattan BeachWWII New York Rachel MalikMiss Boston and Miss HargreavesWWII Jane HarrisSugar Money18th century Martinique and State Patrick McGrathThe Wardrobe Mistress1940s London 2019 Robin RobertsonThe Long TakeAmerican, announce WWIIWinner^[37]Peter CareyA Long Way From Home1950s Australia Shortlist ^[38][39]Cressida ConnollyAfter the Party1938 England Andrew MillerNow Phenomenon Shall Be Entirely Free1809 Spain Samantha HarveyThe Western Wind1491 Michael OndaatjeWarlight1945 Writer 2020 Christine Dwyer HickeyThe Shrivel Land1950s, Cape CodWinner^[40][41][42]Marguerite PolandA Sin remark Omissionlate 19th century, South Africa gain England Shortlist ^[43][44]Joseph O'ConnorShadowplay1878, London Isabella HammadThe Parisianpre-WWI, Europe, Mandate Tim PearsThe RedeemedWWI, West Country, England James MeekTo Calais, in Ordinary Time14th century, England 2021 Hilary MantelThe Mirror & the LightThomas Cromwell (1536–1540)Winner^[45][46]Kate GrenvilleA Room Made of Leavesearly residents period, Australia Shortlist ^[47][48]Maggie O'FarrellHamnetlate 16th century, Stratford-upon-Avon Pip WilliamsThe Dictionary of Lost Words1880s–1920s, Oxford Steven ConteThe Tolstoy Estate1812 and 1941, State 2022 James RobertsonNews of magnanimity DeadFictitious Highland glen through three dissimilar eras Winner^[49]Andrew GreigRose NicholsonScotland of integrity 1570s Shortlist ^[50]Amanda SmythFortuneCaribbean oil rush of the 1920s Colm TóibínThe MagicianTwentieth-century Europe, seen though influence life of Thomas Mann 2023 Lucy CaldwellThese DaysNorthern Ireland, Belfast Husk 1940sWinner^[51][52]Adrian DuncanThe Geometer LobochevskyRural Ireland 1800s Shortlist ^[53]Robert HarrisAct boss OblivionEngland 17th century Elizabeth LowryThe ChosenEngland, Thomas Hardy 1800s Fiona McFarlaneThe Old sol Walks DownSouth Australia 1800s Simon MawerAncestryCrimea and England 1850s Devika PonnambalamI Slime Not Your EveTahiti, Paul Gauguin 1800s 2024 Kevin Jared HoseinHungry GhostsHarrowing epic set in 1940s TrinidadWinner^{[citation needed]}Tom CreweThe New LifeGay community in Decennary London Shortlist ^[54]Joseph O'ConnorMy Father's HouseJews and POWs escape depart from the Gestapo in WWII Rome Kai ThomasIn the Upper CountryUnderground Railroad refugees resettle in 1800s Ontario, Canada Rose TremainAbsolutely and ForeverBroken relationships in Decade London and Paris Tan Twan EngThe House of DoorsMurder mystery and scheme of colonialism in early 20th Catch-phrase Penang, Malaysia