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2021
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Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

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The High House by Jessie Greengrass
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
2020
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The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Peace Talks by Tim Finch
The Less Dead by Denise Mina
2019
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Middle England by Jonathan Coe

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Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Confession with Blue Horses by Sophie Hardach
Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor
Costa Novel Award
2018
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Normal People by Sally Rooney

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The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
From A Low And Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan

2017
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Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

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Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Tin Man by Sarah Winman

2016
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Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

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This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
 
2015
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A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
 
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The Green Road by Anne Enright
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
At Hawthorne Time by Melissa Harrison
 
2014
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How to be Both by Ali Smith

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The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
House of Ashes by Monique Roffey
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
 
2013
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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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Unexpected Lessons in Love by Bernardine Bishop
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
 
2012
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Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
 
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Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May
The Heart Broke In by James Meek
Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart
 
2011
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Pure by Andrew Miller
 
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
 
2010
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The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
 
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Whatever you Love by Louise Doughty
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
 
2009
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Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
 
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Family Album by Penelope Lively
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson
 
2008
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The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
 
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The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernières
Trauma by Patrick McGrath
 
2007
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Day by AL Kennedy
 
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Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
 
2006
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Restless by William Boyd

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Saving Caravaggio by Neil Griffiths
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
 
Whitbread Novel Award
2005
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The Accidental by Ali Smith

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A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson
 
2004
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Small Island by Andrea Levy
 
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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
 
2003
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
 
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The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk
Heligoland by Shena Mackay
Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido
 
2002
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Spies by Michael Frayn
 
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White Lightning by Justin Cartwright
Rumours of a Hurricane by by Tim Lott
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
 
2001
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Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate
 
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The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Oxygen by Andrew Miller
 
2000
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English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
 
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Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson
What Are You Like? by Anne Enright
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
 
1999
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Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
 
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Being Dead by Jim Crace
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
 
1998
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Leading the Cheers by Justin Cartwright
 
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The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett
The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido
 
1997
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Quarantine by Jim Crace
 
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The Untouchable by John Banville
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson
 
1996
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Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
 
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Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard
Mr Clive & Mr Page by Neil Bartlett
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Last Orders by Graham Swift
Worst Fears by Fay Weldon
 
1995
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The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
 
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The Information by Martin Amis
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
 
1994
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Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
 
1993
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Theory of War by Joan Brady
 
1992
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Lanark by Alasdair Gray
 
1991
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The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
 
1990
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Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley
 
1989
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The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke
 
1988
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Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
 
1987
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The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
 
1986
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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
 
1985
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Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
 
1984
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Kruger's Alp by Christopher Hope
 
1983
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Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
 
1982
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Young Shoulders by John Wain
 
1981
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Silver City by Maurice Leitch
 
1980
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How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge
 
1979
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The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston
 
1978
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Picture Palace by Paul Theroux
 
1977
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Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
 
1976
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The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
 
1975
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Docherty by William McIlvanney
 
1974
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch
 
1973
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The Chip Chip Gatherers by Shiva Naipaul
 
1972
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The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
 
1971
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The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles
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