Some Wonderful Historical Novels | The Walter Scott Prize

this book is very like subtly brilliant because all the way to where I was like this is a great book like you know can't for all this really good book not necessarily like a favorite of the year and then the ending was just spectacular and I have thought about it so much since finishing this book that I feel like the ending and also the sort of staying power of this book and have really lifted it from like a really good book to like a really fantastic book

I feel like the one that engaged with history in the most like new and unique way for me was probably ancestry by Simon Mater which wasn't my favorite book from the shortlist by any means but I feel like the way it engaged with history and used this kind of docudrama set up to question what we do and don't know about the past I do think it was really Innovative and I really liked it

I thought it was such a fantastic character portrait of such a wonderful exploration of grief I just was really impressed by The Chosen

I'm not your Eve weaves together a lot of different narratives and voices in this really clever way which again is really dissecting history and looking at kind of who gets to tell the stories from the past

it's such a fantastic character study like I feel like the characterization in the sun walks down was very good and I feel like within the very complicated really nuanced fascinating believable characterization there was also a lot of really interesting nuanced and complicated exploration of all the kind of like political social cultural economic tensions within Australia in the 1880s in the late 19th century and I feel like that was just done so well

the German lovercheski pulls together Irish and Russian history in a way that you wouldn't expect and in a way that works really well and looks are kind of like a turning point in Russian history I suppose

I feel like the descriptions and scenes set during the blitz were fantastic and the kind of the vignettes of other people who weave in between the main characters and their plot lines and was just really well done as well and so I would highly recommend these days by Lucy Caldwell