Shortlist Ghostland by Edward Parnell The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes
2019 Winner The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Shortlist The Unmapped Mind by Christian Donlan Gloucester Crescent by William Miller
2018 Winner The Day That Went Missing by Richard Beard
Shortlist I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell Swimming with Seals by Victoria Whitworth
2017 Winner The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Shortlist All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead This Is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson
2016 Winner Dead Babies and Seaside Towns by Alice Jolly
Shortlist Pour Me: A Life by AA Gill Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father by Adam Mars-Jones
2015 Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
2014 Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
2013 Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway
2012 How to Disappear by Duncan Fallowell
2011 My Father’s Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn
2010 Direct Red by Gabriel Weston
2009 The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn 2008 In My Father’s House by Miranda Seymour 2007 Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson 2006 Untold Stories by Alan Bennett 2005 Half An Arch by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy 2004 Clouds of Glory – A Hoxton Childhood by Bryan Magee 2003 Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski 2002 Out of India: a Raj Childhood by Michael Foss 2001 Bad Blood by Lorna Sage 2000 Child of My Time by Mark Frankland
1999 Precious Lives by Margaret Forster 1998 True to Both My Selves by Katrin Fitzherbert 1997 The Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott 1996 The Railway Man by Eric Lomax 1995 Something in Linoleum by Paul Vaughan 1994 And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison 1993 More Please by Barry Humphries 1992 Almost a Gentleman by John Osborne 1991 St Martin’s Ride by Paul Binding 1990 Daddy We Hardly Knew You by Germaine Greer
1989 The Grass Arena by John Healy 1988 Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess 1987 After a Funeral by Diana Athill 1986 Time and Time Again by Dan Jacobson 1985 Deceived with Kindness by Angelica Garnett 1984 Still Life – Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood by Richard Cobb 1983 Her People by Kathleen Dayus 1983 High Path by Ted Walker 1982 Shaky Relations by Edward Blishen