The Matchbox Girl
Alice Jolly
Published 2025 · Walter Scott Prize 2026
A nonverbal girl’s life in Nazi-era Austria, told with unusual power (Walter Scott Prize 2026).
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HisFic spotlight · recent prize HF
Hand-picked from our catalog: newer Walter Scott / SAH titles worth knowing. These are not sorted by the decade chips above, and not Amazon/NYT sales ranks — prestige + recency only.
The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller
Published 2024 · Walter Scott Prize 2025
Two couples weather Britain’s Big Freeze of 1962–63 (Walter Scott Prize 2025).
The East Indian
Brinda Charry
Published 2023 · SAH Prize 2025
A boy from India arrives in colonial Virginia—America’s earliest Asian immigrant story (SAH Prize 2025).
Hungry Ghosts
Kevin Jared Hosein
Published 2023 · Walter Scott Prize 2024
A Trinidadian epic of hunger, ambition, and a missing boy (Walter Scott Prize 2024).
These Days
Lucy Caldwell
Published 2022 · Walter Scott Prize 2023
Two sisters endure the Belfast Blitz over four devastating days (Walter Scott Prize 2023).
A Dangerous Business
Jane Smiley
Published 2022 · SAH Prize 2023
Two women in Gold Rush Monterey investigate murders (SAH Prize 2023).
News of the Dead
James Robertson
Published 2021 · Walter Scott Prize 2022
A Highland glen’s stories across centuries of saints, strangers, and secrets (Walter Scott Prize 2022).
The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel
Published 2020 · Walter Scott Prize 2021
The final act of Thomas Cromwell’s rise and ruin (Walter Scott Prize 2021).
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NYT fiction charts · likely historical
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Live NYT · Week of 2026-08-2232 fiction titles scanned · 0 likely historical
No titles clearly read as historical fiction on this week's NYT fiction lists (32 charting titles scanned). Use Amazon's HF Best Sellers above, or Discover.
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