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The Day I Fell off My Island by Yvonne Bailey-Smith
The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
Fragile Monsters by Catherine Menon
Moth by Melody Razak

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Under the Blue by Oana Aristide
The Lip by Charlie Carroll
One Hundred Years of Lenni & Margot by Marianne Cronin
The Cookbook of Common Prayer by Francesca Haig
Exile and the Mapmaker by Emma Musty
Learwife by JR Thorp
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Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud

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Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten
The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze
What Is Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott

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Hashim & Family by Shahnaz Ahsan
The Island Child by Molly Aitken
The Family Tree by Sairish Hussain
You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here by Frances Macken
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
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Golden Child by Claire Adam

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The Burning Land by George Aligiah
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
The Other Half of Augusta Hope by Joanna Glen
Only the Dead by TJ Gorton
The Flat Share by Beth O'Leary
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The Pact We Made by Layla AlAmmar
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
The Ghost Factory by Jenny McCartney
A River in the Trees by Jacqueline O'Mahony
Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
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In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne

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The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
Silence Under a Stone by Norma MacMaster
A Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray
Testament by Kim Sherwood

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All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin
Orchid and the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
If I Die Before I Wake by Emily Koch
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton​
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
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The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
Darke by Rick Gekoski
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
White Highlands by John McGhie
Man with a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige
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The Favourite by SV Berlin
Splash by Stephen Glover
How to Be a Kosovan Bride by Naomi Hamill
The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana
Little Gold by Allie Rogers
A Thousand Paper Birds by Tor Udall
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Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
 
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The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
Himself by Jess Kidd
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
 
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Pigeon by Alys Conran
The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
Shtum by Jem Lester
Holding by Graham Norton
Where the River Parts by Radhika Swarup
Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg
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The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock
 
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Jakob's Colours by Lindsay Hawdon
The Good Son by Paul McVeigh
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Belonging by Umi Sinha
Rawblood by Catriona Ward
 
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The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Speaker's Wife by Quentin Letts
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester
The Last Days of Disco by David F Ross
Mainlander by Will Smith
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A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
 
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The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison
The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
Ishmael’s Oranges by Claire Hajaj
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer
 
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The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Academy Street by Mary Costello
The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt
Acts of Omission by Terry Stiastny
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The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf
 
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The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
The Fields by Kevin Maher
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson
 
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The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland
Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi
Hunters in the Snow by Daisy Hildyard
Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
The Rice Paper Diaries by Francesca Rhydderch
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The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
Mountains of the Moon by IJ Kay
 
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Absolution by Patrick Flanery
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson
Seldom Seen by Sarah Ridgard
The English Monster by Lloyd Shepherd
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City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
 
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Leela's Book: A Novel by Alice Albinia
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
A Book for All and None by Clare Morgan
The Knife Drawer by Padrika Tarrant
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London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp
 
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Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
Farundell by LR Fredericks
Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
Dry Season by Dan Smith
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The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
 
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Choke Chain by Jason Donald
The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath
Designs for a Happy Home by Matthew Reynolds
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
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2009
Pollard by Laura Beatty
 
2007
Goodbye Lucille by Segun Afolabi
 
2006
The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan
 
2005
Sandstorm by Henry Shukman
 
2004
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Betrayal in Naples by Neil Griffiths
 
2003
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
 
2002
The Water Breather by Ben Faccini
 
2001
Burning Worm by Carl Tighe
 
2000
The Stream by Brian Clarke
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1999
Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries
 
1998
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
 
1997
The Underground Man by Mick Jackson
 
1996
Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones by Rhidian Brook
 
1995
Walter and the Resurrection of G by TJ Armstrong
 
1994
Pig by Andrew Cowan
 
1993
Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam
 
1992
The Healing by David Park
 
1991
The Book of Wishes and Complaints by Zina Rohan
 
1990
The Way You Tell Them by Alan Brownjohn
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​1989
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
 
1988
The Holy Innocents by Gilbert Adair
 
1987
The Levels by Peter Benson
 
1986
Playing Fields in Winter by Helen Harris
 
1985
Eightsome Reel by Magda Sweetland
 
1984
Lama: A Novel of Tibet by Frederick R Hyde-Chambers
 
1983
Summer at the Haven by Katherine Moore
 
1982
Privileged Children by Frances Vernon
 
1981
The Magic Glass by Anne Smith
 
1980
The Good Morrow by Dawn Lowe-Watson
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​1979
The Pilate Plot by Martin Page
 
1978
The Emerald Peacock by Katharine Gordon
 
1977
The Underlings by Barbara Benson
 
1975
A Lavender Trip by Sasha Moorsom
 
1973
The Captains and the Kings by Jennifer Johnston
 
1971
We Speak No Treason by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
 
1970
Theft by Rachel Ingalls
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​1969
A Touch of Daniel by Peter Tinniswood
 
1968
Figures in a Landscape by Barry England
 
1967
At The Jerusalem by Paul Bailey
 
1966
The Virgin Soldiers by Leslie Thomas
 
1965
Beggars on Horseback by James Mossman
 
1964
Hot for Certainties by Robin Douglas-Home
 
1963
The Greater Darkness by David Rubin
 
1962
Gone to Timbuctoo by John Pearson
 
1961
The Sun in the Morning by Jim Hunter
 
1960
The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson
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​1959
At Fever Pitch by David Caute
 
1958
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
 
1957
Summer in Retreat by Edmund Ward
 
1956
Episode by Harry Bloom
 
1955
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
 
1954
The Governor's Wife by David Unwin
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