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The Staunch Book Prize

The Western Wind is the winner of the 2019 Staunch Book Prize

‘A fascinating insight into the times, the privations, the sheer smallness and hardship of life that grinds on at subsistance level.  Descriptions are achingly vivid – you feel the mud, the cold, the wet, the misery as if you were there, yet the result is not only intriguing but entertaining. The mystery unravels backwards in time, the language feels right and this unique, deftly told story is exquisitely handled in every respect.’

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The Walter Scott Prize shortlist

‘The Western Wind’ is one of six novels on the 2019 shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize.

It is alongside novels by Peter Carey, Cressida Connolly, Andrew Miller, Michael Ondaatje and Robin Robertson.
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Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month

‘The Western Wind’ is March Fiction Book of the Month at Waterstones

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The Western Wind long listed for the HWA Gold Crown Award

The Western Wind has been long listed for the Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown Award 2018

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Giller Prize longlist announced

For 6 months, I’ve been adopting an increasingly large and innovative number of reading positions in order to physically sustain my reading habits, and do justice to the 161 novels and story collections submitted to the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It’s been a long, wild, illuminating, exhausting ride and today the longlist of 12 is announced.

We, the 5 judges, are pretty excited by the eccentric list we’ve drawn up; it’s heartfelt, reflects our collective and individual passions and pays no heed to conformity for conformity’s sake. There are books that it pained us to leave off the list; there’s nothing easy about narrowing 161 to 12. To all 161 authors, thanks – how honoured I am to have read your work and got to know books I’d have not known otherwise.

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The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize

Dear Thief was one of the 15 books to be longlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize

Longlist JFUP 2015
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The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes

Dear Thief has been shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, announced 22nd April.

The winner will be announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 17th August.

James Tait Black Prizes

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The Baileys Prize Longlist

Dear Thief longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize.

The Baileys Prize 2015 longlist

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The Culture Show’s 12 Best New British Novelists

On 5th March 2011, Samantha Harvey was named by BBC2’s Culture Show as one of the 12 Best New British Novelists. You can find more information about that show here, and read about the 12 novelists chosen in the coverage in The Guardian.

The Culture Show ’12 Best New British Novelists’

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‘The Wilderness’ announced the winner of the inaugural AMI Literature Award

On 17th November 2009, The Wilderness was announced the winner of an Ability Media International Award, which is a group of annual awards given to projects in the arts that encourage and honour a more inclusive world. The Wilderness was the winner of the Literature Award in the inaugural 2009 nominations. In terms of press coverage, perhaps the least high profile of the novel’s achievements, but in many ways the one of which I’m most proud.