HWA Crown AwardsLonglist

Given by Historical Writers' Association

Other Names: HWA Sharpe Books Gold Crown
215 Works 0 Books

Historical Writers Awards - Debut, Nonfiction & Gold for Fiction

Stages:
All, Winner (18), Shortlist (108), Longlist (215)
Categories:
All, Debut (71), Gold (71), Non-Fiction (72), Shortlist (1)
Years:
All, 2023 (35), 2022 (36), 2021 (36), 2020 (36), 2019 (36), 2018 (36)

Longlist 215

WorkCategoryYear
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson JosephDebut2023
Clytemnestra by Costanza CasatiDebut2023
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusDebut2023
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall: A Novel by Katie LumsdenDebut2023
Death and the Conjuror: A Locked-Room Mystery by Tom MeadDebut2023
The Circus Train by Amita ParikhDebut2023
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor ShearerDebut2023
The New Life by Tom CreweDebut2023
Theatre of Marvels by Lianne DillsworthDebut2023
Weyward by Emilia HartDebut2023
The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys by Jack JewersDebut2023
Bonny & Read by Julie WalkerDebut2023
The Color Storm by Damian DibbenGold2023
The Weather Woman by Sally GardnerGold2023
The Dance Tree: A Novel by Kiran Millwood HargraveGold2023
The Chosen by Elizabeth LowryGold2023
Dark Earth by Rebecca StottGold2023
River Spirit by Leila AboulelaGold2023
Bad Relations by Cressida ConnollyGold2023
Trust by Hernan DiazGold2023
Spear by Nicola GriffithGold2023
The Great Reclamation by Rachel HengGold2023
A Wild & True Relation by Kim SherwoodGold2023
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline DavisonNon-Fiction2023
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War by Jessie ChildsNon-Fiction2023
Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah CleggNon-Fiction2023
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini DasNon-Fiction2023
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine RundellNon-Fiction2023
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan StoneNon-Fiction2023
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare BucknellNon-Fiction2023
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank DikötterNon-Fiction2023
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence FreedmanNon-Fiction2023
The Age of Uncertainty by Tobias HürterNon-Fiction2023
After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War by Helen RappaportNon-Fiction2023
The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe by Kate StrasdinNon-Fiction2023
The Spirit Engineer by A. J. WestDebut2022
The Leviathan by Rosie AndrewsDebut2022
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie PookDebut2022
The Deception of Harriet Fleet by Helen ScarlettDebut2022
Hear No Evil by Sarah SmithDebut2022
The Plague Letters by V.L. ValentineDebut2022
The Queen's Lender by Jean FindlayDebut2022
The Silver Wolf by J. C. HarveyDebut2022
The Flames by Sophie HaydockDebut2022
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea KimDebut2022
The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria MasDebut2022
Black Drop by Leonora NattrassDebut2022
The Fortune Men by Nadifa MohamedGold2022
Small Things Like These by Claire KeeganGold2022
A Winter War by Tim LeachGold2022
The Kingdoms by Natasha PulleyGold2022
The Great Passion by James RuncieGold2022
Great Circle by Maggie ShipsteadGold2022
Case Study by Graeme Macrae BurnetGold2022
Booth by Karen Joy FowlerGold2022
The Wolf Den by Elodie HarperGold2022
All of You Every Single One by Beatrice HitchmanGold2022
The Thin Place by C D MajorGold2022
The Rebel Daughter by Miranda MalinsGold2022
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac CumhaillNon-Fiction2022
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England by Julie KavanaghNon-Fiction2022
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew PettegreeNon-Fiction2022
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby PhillipsNon-Fiction2022
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War by Robert Sackville-WestNon-Fiction2022
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline ShentonNon-Fiction2022
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice by Patrick BishopNon-Fiction2022
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie BoothNon-Fiction2022
Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael CormackNon-Fiction2022
The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-FairhurstNon-Fiction2022
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoe PlaydonNon-Fiction2022
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History by Alex Von TunzelmannNon-Fiction2022
Sin Eater by Megan CampisiDebut2021
Tsarina by Ellen AlpstenDebut2021
Strange Adventures Of H by Sarah BurtonDebut2021
Eight Detectives by Alex PavesiDebut2021
The Lost Apothecary: A Novel by Sarah PennerDebut2021
People of Abandoned Character by Clare WhitfieldDebut2021
Bronte's Mistress by Finola AustinDebut2021
The Puritan Princess by Miranda MalinsDebut2021
Imperfect Alchemist by Naomi MillerDebut2021
Edge of the Grave by Robbie MorrisonDebut2021
The Company Daughters by Samantha RajaramDebut2021
The Long, Long Afternoon by Inga VesperDebut2021
The Unwanted Dead by Chris LloydGold2021
V for Victory by Lissa EvansGold2021
Arrowood and the Thames Corpses by Mick FinlayGold2021
The Silver Collar by Antonia HodgsonGold2021
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-RobinsonGold2021
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart TurtonGold2021
Spirited by Julie CohenGold2021
Tell Me How It Ends by V.B. GreyGold2021
Cathedral by Ben HopkinsGold2021
Jackie and Maria by Gill PaulGold2021
Light Perpetual by Francis SpuffordGold2021
The Last Protector by Andrew TaylorGold2021
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 by Alan AllportNon-Fiction2021
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda ColleyNon-Fiction2021
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy LowerNon-Fiction2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les PayneNon-Fiction2021
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy StanleyNon-Fiction2021
Ellis Island : A People's History by Małgorzata SzejnertNon-Fiction2021
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 by Saul DavidNon-Fiction2021
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph HoneNon-Fiction2021
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthyNon-Fiction2021
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard OvendenNon-Fiction2021
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane by Samanth SubramanianNon-Fiction2021
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael TaylorNon-Fiction2021
The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane HealeyDebut2020
The Book of Echoes by Rosanna AmakaDebut2020
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara CollinsDebut2020
The Lost Ones by Anita FrankDebut2020
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacnealDebut2020
American Spy by Lauren WilkinsonDebut2020
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian BarrDebut2020
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet GramesDebut2020
This Lovely City by Louise HareDebut2020
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz JedrowskiDebut2020
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing LeeDebut2020
A Book of Secrets by Kate MorrisonDebut2020
The King's Evil by Andrew TaylorGold2020
The Darker Arts by Oscar de MurielGold2020
The Year Without Summer by Guinevere GlasfurdGold2020
Whiskey When We're Dry by John LarisonGold2020
The Bastille Spy by C.S. QuinnGold2020
The Hiding Game by Naomi WoodGold2020
The New Achilles by Christian CameronGold2020
City of Girls by Elizabeth GilbertGold2020
Coming Up for Air by Sarah LeipcigerGold2020
The Shadow King by Maaza MengisteGold2020
The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing by Mary Paulson-EllisGold2020
The Bone Fire by S D SykesGold2020
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby GreenNon-Fiction2020
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung ChangNon-Fiction2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William DalrympleNon-Fiction2020
The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca GowersNon-Fiction2020
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim MohrNon-Fiction2020
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern by Robert MorrisonNon-Fiction2020
The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger CrowleyNon-Fiction2020
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance by Catherine FletcherNon-Fiction2020
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James ShapiroNon-Fiction2020
The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin by Douglas SmithNon-Fiction2020
Michael Tippett: The Biography by Oliver SodenNon-Fiction2020
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion TurnerNon-Fiction2020
Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-RobinsonDebut2019
The Illumination of Ursula Flight by Anna-Marie CrowhurstDebut2019
Only Killers and Thieves by Paul HowarthDebut2019
Dear Mrs Bird by AJ PearceDebut2019
Confessions of the Fox: A Novel by Jordy RosenbergDebut2019
The Familiars by Stacey HallsDebut2019
The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn KirbyDebut2019
As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S. MurrayDebut2019
The Age of Light by Whitney ScharerDebut2019
The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali SerpellDebut2019
Blackberry and Wild Rose by Sonia VeltonDebut2019
Once Upon a River by Diane SetterfieldGold2019
Little by Edward CareyGold2019
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel GaynorGold2019
Lancelot: The Betrayal by Giles KristianGold2019
Smoke and Ashes by Abir MukherjeeGold2019
Mrs Whistler by Matthew PlampinGold2019
The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth HaynesGold2019
Dark Water by Elizabeth LowryGold2019
Triumph in Dust (Twilight of Empire) by Ian RossGold2019
Tombland by C. J. SansomGold2019
A Treachery of Spies by Manda ScottGold2019
Caligula by Simon TurneyGold2019
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacintyreNon-Fiction2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam HigginbothamNon-Fiction2019
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel ImmerwahrNon-Fiction2019
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue PrideauxNon-Fiction2019
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family by Helen RappaportNon-Fiction2019
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie RubenholdNon-Fiction2019
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko AbeNon-Fiction2019
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick BarrattNon-Fiction2019
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher HardingNon-Fiction2019
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor HermanNon-Fiction2019
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate HubbardNon-Fiction2019
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah WeinmanNon-Fiction2019
The Glass Woman by Caroline LeaShortlist2019
Estoril by Dejan Tiago-StankovicDebut2018
The Optickal Illusion: A Novel by Rachel HalliburtonDebut2018
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally MagnussonDebut2018
The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. PendziwolDebut2018
The Woolgrower's Companion by Joy RhoadesDebut2018
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart TurtonDebut2018
Deposed: An epic thriller of power, treachery and revenge by David BarbareeDebut2018
The Wicked Cometh by Laura CarlinDebut2018
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes GowarDebut2018
Bitter by Francesca JakobiDebut2018
The Magician's Lie by Greer MacallisterDebut2018
The Parentations by Kate MayfieldDebut2018
To Die in Spring by Ralf RothmannGold2018
Blood's Game by Angus DonaldGold2018
Sugar Money by Jane HarrisGold2018
The Valentine House by Emma HendersonGold2018
The Last Hour: Relentless, brutal, brilliant. 24 hours in Ancient Rome by Harry SidebottomGold2018
The Zoo by Christopher WilsonGold2018
The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve ChaseGold2018
The Coffin Path by Katherine ClementsGold2018
The Western Wind by Samantha HarveyGold2018
Pilgrim's War by Michael JecksGold2018
Prussian Blue by Philip KerrGold2018
The Tyrant's Shadow by Antonia SeniorGold2018
White King: Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda De LisleNon-Fiction2018
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew KnealeNon-Fiction2018
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us by Keith LoweNon-Fiction2018
Pie and Mash down the Roman Road: 100 Years of Love and Life in One East End Market by Melanie McGrathNon-Fiction2018
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham RobbNon-Fiction2018
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas ShakespeareNon-Fiction2018
Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810 by Michael BroersNon-Fiction2018
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda KaufmannNon-Fiction2018
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: The Life and Times of a Civil War Heroine by Lucy MooreNon-Fiction2018
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry by Clare MulleyNon-Fiction2018
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote by Jane RobinsonNon-Fiction2018
Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World by Simon ThurleyNon-Fiction2018

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