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2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlist
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2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlist

Honoring the achievements of the founding father of the historical novel, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world. Here is the longlist for 2023!

The Settlement

By: Jock Serong
Narrated by: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself.
On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with... Read more

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The Sun Walks Down

A Novel

By: Fiona McFarlane
Narrated by: Emma Jones
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

“A riveting read. I was grabbed by the landscape, the characters and the premise right off the bat. Set in South Australia in the 1880's, it's the story of a missing child and the varied crowd that searches for him amid the backdrop of the mountains and desert of the outback. I couldn't put it down. Read more

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The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

A Novel

By: Paterson Joseph
Narrated by: Paterson Joseph
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

This program is read by the author, who also plays the lead role of Sancho in his play, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance.

"To be able to speak these intimate words into a listener’s ears is this writer-performer’s dream. I have always loved the spoken word, as it strikes me as the purest form of performance. In public storytelling terms, it is...
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Act of Oblivion

A Novel

By: Robert Harris
Narrated by: Tim McInnerny
Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail—an epic journey into the wilds of... Read more

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My Name Is Yip

A Novel

By: Paddy Crewe
Narrated by: Sean Bridgers
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

A bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush, for readers of Charles Portis and Cormac McCarthy, by a powerful debut novelist with an original voiceIt’s 1815 in the small town of Heron’s Creek, Georgia, when Yip Tolroy––mute, medical anomaly, and social outcast––is born. His father has disappeared under mysterious... Read more

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These Days

'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES

By: Lucy Caldwell
Narrated by: Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK AT BEDTIME
A Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year


'Sensationally good' Sunday Times
'Remarkably, unusually vivid' The Times
'Brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak.' Guardian

Two sisters. Four nights. One City.

April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the... Read more

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The Romantic

A novel

By: William Boyd
Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

From the award-winning, internationally best-selling author, a beguiling romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a nineteenth-century everyman

"Picaresque, big-hearted and moving, this is Boyd at the top of his game." The Guardian

One man, many lives . . . Cashel Greville Ross experiences more... Read more

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