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2021
​The Kids
​by Hannah Lowe
2020
​The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
2019
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
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2018
The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es
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2017
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
 
2016
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
 
2015
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
 
2014
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
 
2013
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
 
2012
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
 
2011
Pure by Andrew Miller
 
2010
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
 
2009
A Scattering by Christopher Reid
 
2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
 
2007
Day by AL Kennedy
 
2006
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
 
Whitbread Book of the Year
2005
Matisse: The Master by Hilary Spurling
 
2004
Small Island by Andrea Levy
 
2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
 
2002
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
 
2001
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
 
2000
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
 
1999
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
 
1998
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
 
1997
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
 
1996
The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
 
1995
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
 
1994
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
 
1993
Theory of War by Joan Brady
 
1992
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
 
1991
A Life of Picasso by John Richardson
 
1990
Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley
 
1989
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes
 
1988
The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer
 
1987
Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan
 
1986
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
 
1985
Elegies by Douglas Dunn
 
1980
How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge​