Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022

Winner

News of the Dead

James Robertson

Hamish Hamilton

Walter Scott · 2022 · Winner

For its meditation on Scottish identity across millennia — a novel that binds past and present in the landscape itself.

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Shortlist & Longlist

Shortlist

Shortlist

These Days

Lucy CaldwellShortlist

Shortlist

Hungry Ghosts

Kevin Jared HoseinShortlist

Shortlist

The New Life

Tom CreweShortlist

Judges

Alistair Moffat
Rosemary Goring
Stuart Kelly

Event Details

Announcement Date: June 17, 2022