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2022
Shortlist
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall
The Giant Dark by Sarvat Hasin
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic
2021
Winner
The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes

Shortlist
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Should We Fall Behind by Sharon Duggal
The Blind Light by Stuart Evers
The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
2020
Winner
Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness

Shortlist
For the Good Times by David Keenan
My Coney Island Baby by Billy O'Callaghan
Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto
Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma
2019
Winner
Normal People by Sally Rooney
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Shortlist
​Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers
Gamble by Kerry Hadley-Pryce
Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon by Anthony Joseph
Crocodile by Daniel Shand
Jott by Sam Thompson
2018
Winners
Devil's Day by Andrew Michael Hurley
​The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney

Shortlist
Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
​Johannesburg by Fiona Melrose
Welcome To Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
​The Bedlam Sticks by Natasha Pulley​
2017
Winner
The North Water by Ian McGuire
 
Shortlist
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
Beast by Paul Kingsnorth
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Lauras by Sara Taylor
2015
Winner
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
2014
Winner
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
 
Shortlist
Getting Colder by Amanda Coe
Reasons She Goes to the Woods by Deborah Kay Davies
Everland by Rebecca Hunt
Her by Harriet Lane
The Way Inn by Will Wiles
2013
Winner
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
 
Shortlist
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
This is the Way by Gavin Corbett
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen
Snake Road by Sue Peebles
2012
Winner
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
 
Shortlist
What the Family Needed by Steven Amsterdam
The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
Joy by Jonathan Lee
Little People by Jane Sullivan
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany

Winners

2011
Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne
 
2010
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
 
2009
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
 
2007
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland
 
2005
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
 
2004
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
 
2003
The Book of Israel by Jeremy Gavron
 
2002
Hotel World by Ali Smith
 
2001
What Are You Like? by Anne Enright
 
2000
The Last Life by Claire Messud
1999
Undiscovered Country by Christina Koning
 
1998
I could Read the Sky by Timothy O'Grady
These Demented Lands by Alan Warner
 
1997
Like Plastic by David Flusfeder
 
1996
So I Am Glad by AL Kennedy
 
1995
A Goat’s Song by Dermot Healy
 
1994
Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhuri
 
1993
The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
 
1992
Downriver by Iain Sinclair
 
1991
Richard’s Feet by Carey Harrison
 
1990
A Lesser Dependency by Peter Benson
Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn by Paul Watkins