2020 Winner The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
Shortlist A Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins The Lost Ones by Anita Frank The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Longlist You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames This Lovely City by Louise Hare Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee A Book of Secrets by Kate Morrison
2019 Winner Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Shortlist The Illumination of Ursula Flight by Anna-Marie Crowhurst Only Killers And Thieves by Paul Howarth The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce The Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
Longlist The Familiars by Stacey Halls The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell Blackberry and Wild Rose by Sonia Velton
2018 Winner Estoril by Dejan Tiago-Stanković
Shortlist The Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton A Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E Pendziwol The Woolgrower’s Companion by Joy Rhoades The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Longlist Deposed by David Barbaree The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar Bitter by Francesca Jakobi The Magician’s Lie by Greer Macallister The Parentations by Kate Mayfield