2021 Shortlist Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Should We Fall Behind by Sharon Duggal The Blind Light by Stuart Evers The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes 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 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