2020 Betty Trask Prize Hitch by Kathryn Hind Betty Trask Award The Familiars by Stacey Halls The Parisian by Isabella Hammad The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu
2019 Betty Trask Prize The Litten Path by James Clarke
Betty Trask Award The Chameleon by Samuel Fisher The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar The Watermelon Boys by Ruqaya Izzidien Paul by Daisy Lafarge Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
2018 Betty Trask Prize The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton
Betty Trask Award Mussolini’s Island by Sarah Day All The Good Things by Clare Fisher Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone Bad Ideas/Chemicals by Lloyd Markham The Reactive by Masanda Ntshanga
2017 Betty Trask Prize Fallow by Daniel Shand Betty Trask Award Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John Speak its Name by Kathleen Jowitt The Hollow Men by Rob McCarthy Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
2016 Betty Trask Prize Glass by Alex Christofi Betty Trask Award Butterfly Fish by Irenosen Okojie The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley Weathering by Lucy Wood
2015 Betty Trask Prize The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson Betty Trask Award Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger Chop Chop by Simon Wroe
2014 Betty Trask Prize The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer Betty Trask Award We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo Idiopathy by Sam Byers Chaplin and Company by Mave Fellowes Ostrich by Matt Greene
2013 Betty Trask Prize The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen Betty Trask Award The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo The Innocents by Francesca Segal Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
2012 Betty Trask Prize Bed by David Whitehouse Betty Trask Award The Danger Game by Kalinda Ashton Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher Hungry the Stars and Everything by Emma Jane Unsworth
2011 Betty Trask Prize Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph Betty Trask Award Twenty-One Locks by Laura Barton Rupture by Simon Lelic Luke and Jon by Robert Williams
2010 Betty Trask Prize Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Betty Trask Award A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
2009 Betty Trask Prize The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey Betty Trask Award The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
Betty Trask Award
2008 The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money by Thomas Leveritt God's Own Country by Ross Raisin The Floating Island by Anna Ralph London and the South-East by David Szalay
2007 My Side of the Story by Will Davis The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds The Long Dry by Cynan Jones You Can Live Forever by Julie Maxwell In Search of the Missing Eyelash by Karen Mcleod
2006 The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan
2005 26a by Diana Evans Eve Green by Susan Fletcher Brass by Helen Walsh
2004 The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean The Sun Road by Hannah MacDonald The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
2003 Nightdancing by Elizabeth Garner Haweswater by Sarah Hall If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor Gaveston by Stephanie Merritt Negative Space by Zoe Strachan Politics by Adam Thirlwell
2002 My Summer of Love by Helen Cross A Child’s Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru Cold Water by Gwendoline Riley The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
2001 Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill Take One Young Man by Vivien Kelly Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko by Patrick Neate After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2000 By The Shore by Galaxy Craze Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains by Susan Elderkin The Requiem Shark by Nicholas Griffin The Hunter by Julia Leigh The Season Ticket by Jonathan Tulloch
1999 In Beautiful Disguises by Rajeev Balasubramanyam Olympia by Dennis Bock In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
1998 The Cure for Death by Lighting by Gail Anderson-Dargatz Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai Zigzag Street by Nick Earls Underground by Tobias Hill Eclipse of the Sun by Phil Whitaker
1997 Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo Poker Face by Josie Barnard The Beach by Alex Garland Theory of Mind by Sanjida O'Connell Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil
1996 The Testimony of Taliesin Jones by Rhidian Brook The Luxury of Exile by Louis Caron Buss The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester Anita and Me by Meera Syal
1996 The Testimony of Taliesin Jones by Rhidian Brook The Luxury of Exile by Louis Caron Buss The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester Anita and Me by Meera Syal
1995 The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr Midnight Feast by Martina Evans A Speck of Coaldust by Rohit Manchanda Dependence Day by Robert Newman Hallelujah Jordan by Juliet Thomas The Latecomer by Philippa Walshe The Tennis Party by Madeleine Wickham
1994 Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam Divorcing Jack by Colin Bateman After the Hole by Guy Burt The Game by Frances Liardet Some Hope by Jonathan Rix
1993 You’ll Never be Here Again by Mark Blackaby Mothers and Other Lovers by Joanna Briscoe Tommy Was Here by Simon Corrigan Pig by Andrew Cowan Landing on Clouds by Olivia Fane
1992 Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer The Dream Stone by Liane Jones The Last of His Line by Eugene Mullan Kissing Through a Pane of Glass by Peter M Rosenberg Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn
1991 A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri Quite Contrary by Suzannah Dunn Honour Thy Father by Lesley Glaister The Great English Nude by Simon Mason Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci Teaching Little Fang by Mark Swallow
1990 The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick No Strange Land by Rosemary Cohen Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson The Vision of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare
1989 Harry’s Last Wedding by Paul Houghton Uncle Henry’s Last Stand by Alasdair McKee Watercolour Sky by William Riviere The Life Game by Nigel Watts
1988 Behind the Waterfall by Georgina Andrewes Left of North by James Friel The General Interruptor MS by Alex Martin A Case of Knives by Candia McWilliam Burning Your Own by Glenn Patterson Small Tales of a Town by Susan Webster
1987 Lost Time by Catherine Arnold The Levels by Peter Benson Gestures by HS Bhabra Return Journey by Helen Flint Hard Luck by James Maw The Pink Stallion by Lucy Pinney
1986 Mzungu’s Wife by Philippa Blake Family, Myths and Legends by Patricia Ferguson Whore Banquets by Matthew Kneale The Road to Dilmun by JG McLaughlin Tongues of Flames by Tim Parks The Prodigal Father by Kate Saunders
1985 A Season of Peace by Gary Armitage A Very Private Enterprise by Elizabeth Ironside Legacy by Susan Kay Instead of Eden by Alice Mitchell The Earth Abides For Ever by George Schweiz The Standing Hills by Caroline Stickland
1984 A Parish of Rich Women by James Buchan Winter Journey by Ronald Frame Playing Fields in Winter by Helen Harris The Disinherited by Gareth Jones Cold Showers by Clare Nonhebel The Devil's Looking Glass by Simon Rees