Stuart Hill won the inaugural Waterstones Children's Book Award in 2005 for Cry of the Icemark as well as the Highland Book Award and the Medway Book Award. Stuart was also longlisted for the Carnegie medal and several years later he was nominated for the Red House Book Award. He was also twice nominated for the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction for Shield Maiden, a novel about Aethelflaed, the daughter of Alfred the Great, and also for The First King of England, the story of the Saxon King Athelstan, who united the country against its many enemies in the time of the Viking invasions.
