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2025

Winner
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

Shortlist
All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
Hard By A Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili
Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen

Longlist
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes
Going Home by Tom Lamont
Dominoes by Phoebe McIntosh
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands
Manny and the Baby by Varaidzo

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2024

Winner
All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

Shortlist
One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattacharya
The New Life by Tom Crewe
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
Pearl by Sian Hughes
Close to Home by Michael Magee

Longlist
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro
A Good House for Children by Kate Collins
The Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather Darwent
Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
Queen K by Sarah Thomas
Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton

2023

Winner
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Shortlist
The Dictator’s Wife by Freya Berry
Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill
My Name Is Yip by Paddy Crewe
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

Longlist
To Fill a Yellow House by Sussie Anie
Edgware Road by Yasmin Cordery-Khan
Little Boxes by Cecilia Knapp
I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel
Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook
No Country for Girls by Emma Styles

2022

Winner
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney

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

Longlist
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

2021

Winner
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud

Shortlist
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

Longlist
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

2020

Winner
Golden Child by Claire Adam

Shortlist
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

Longlist
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

2019

Winner
In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne

Shortlist
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

Longlist
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

2018

Winner
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Shortlist
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

Longlist
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

2017

Winner
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Shortlist
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

Longlist
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

2016

Winner
The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock

Shortlist
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

Longlist
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

2015

Winner
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray

Shortlist
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

Longlist
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

2014

Winner
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf

Shortlist
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

Longlist
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

2013

Winners
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
Mountains of the Moon by IJ Kay

Shortlist
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

2012

Winner
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry

Shortlist
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

2011

Winner
London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp

Shortlist
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

2010

Winner
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn

Shortlist
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

2009

Winner
Pollard by Laura Beatty

2007

Winner
Goodbye Lucille by Segun Afolabi

2006

Winner
The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan

2005

Winner
Sandstorm by Henry Shukman

2004

Winners
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Betrayal in Naples by Neil Griffiths

2003

Winner
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes

2002

Winner
The Water Breather by Ben Faccini

2001

Winner
Burning Worm by Carl Tighe

2000

Winner
The Stream by Brian Clarke

1999

Winner
Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries

1998

Winner
Trumpet by Jackie Kay

1997

Winner
The Underground Man by Mick Jackson

1996

Winners
Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones by Rhidian Brook

1995

Winner
Walter and the Resurrection of G by TJ Armstrong

1994

Winner
Pig by Andrew Cowan

1993

Winner
Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam

1992

Winner
The Healing by David Park

1991

Winner
The Book of Wishes and Complaints by Zina Rohan

1990

Winner
The Way You Tell Them by Alan Brownjohn

1989

Winner
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis

1988

Winner
The Holy Innocents by Gilbert Adair

1987

Winner
The Levels by Peter Benson

1986

Winner
Playing Fields in Winter by Helen Harris

1985

Winner
Eightsome Reel by Magda Sweetland

1984

Winner
Lama: A Novel of Tibet by Frederick R Hyde-Chambers

1983

Winner
Summer at the Haven by Katherine Moore

1982

Winner
Privileged Children by Frances Vernon

1981

Winner
The Magic Glass by Anne Smith

1980

Winner
The Good Morrow by Dawn Lowe-Watson

1979

Winner
The Pilate Plot by Martin Page

1978

Winner
The Emerald Peacock by Katharine Gordon

1977

Winner
The Underlings by Barbara Benson

1975

Winner
A Lavender Trip by Sasha Moorsom

1973

Winner
The Captains and the Kings by Jennifer Johnston

1971

Winner
We Speak No Treason by Rosemary Hawley Jarman

1970

Winner
Theft by Rachel Ingalls

1969

Winner
A Touch of Daniel by Peter Tinniswood

1968

Winner
Figures in a Landscape by Barry England

1967

Winner
At The Jerusalem by Paul Bailey

1966

Winner
The Virgin Soldiers by Leslie Thomas

1965

Winner
Beggars on Horseback by James Mossman

1964

Winner
Hot for Certainties by Robin Douglas-Home

1963

Winner
The Greater Darkness by David Rubin

1962

Winner
Gone to Timbuctoo by John Pearson

1961

Winner
The Sun in the Morning by Jim Hunter

1960

Winner
The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson

1959

Winner
At Fever Pitch by David Caute

1958

Winner
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

1957

Winner
Summer in Retreat by Edmund Ward

1956

Winner
Episode by Harry Bloom

1955

Winner
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore

1954

Winner
The Governor's Wife by David Unwin

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