2024

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The Stirrings by Catherine Taylor
 
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Mother Country by Monique Charlesworth
Private Worlds by Jeremy Seabrook

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2023

Winner
Thunderstone: The True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another by Nancy Campbell
 
Shortlist
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm
Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi

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2022

Winner
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders

Shortlist
Consumed: A Sister's Story by Arifa Akbar
Simple Annals: A Memoir of Early Childhood by Roy Watkins

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2021

Winner
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox
 
Shortlist
Inventory: A River, A City, A Family by Darran Anderson
These Silent Mansions by Jean Sprackland

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2020

Winner
A Radical Romance by Alison Light

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Ghostland by Edward Parnell
The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes

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2019

Winner
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Shortlist
The Unmapped Mind by Christian Donlan
Gloucester Crescent by William Miller

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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

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2017

Winner
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot

Shortlist
All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead
This Is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson

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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

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2015

​Winner
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh

2014

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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

2013

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Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway

2012

​Winner
How to Disappear by Duncan Fallowell

2011

2011
​Winner
My Father’s Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn

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2010

​Winner
Direct Red by Gabriel Weston

2009

​Winner
The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn

2008

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In My Father’s House by Miranda Seymour

2007

​Winner
Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson

2006

​Winner
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett

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2005

​Winner
Half An Arch by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

2004

​Winner
Clouds of Glory – A Hoxton Childhood by Bryan Magee

2003

​Winner
Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski

2002

​Winner
Out of India: a Raj Childhood by Michael Foss

2001

​Winner
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage

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2000

​Winner
Child of My Time by Mark Frankland

1999

​Winner
Precious Lives by Margaret Forster

1998

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True to Both My Selves by Katrin Fitzherbert

1997

​Winner
The Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott

1996

​Winner
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax

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1995

​Winner
Something in Linoleum by Paul Vaughan

1994

​Winner
And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison

1993

​Winner
More Please by Barry Humphries

1992

​Winner
Almost a Gentleman by John Osborne

1991

​Winner
St Martin’s Ride by Paul Binding

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1990

​Winner
Daddy We Hardly Knew You by Germaine Greer

1989

​Winner
The Grass Arena by John Healy

1988

​Winner
Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess

1987

​Winner
After a Funeral by Diana Athill

1986

​Winner
Time and Time Again by Dan Jacobson

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1985

​Winner
Deceived with Kindness by Angelica Garnett

1984

​Winner
Still Life – Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood by Richard Cobb

1983

​Winners
Her People by Kathleen Dayus
High Path by Ted Walker

1982

Winner
Shaky Relations by Edward Blishen

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