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2022
Winner
The Magician by Colm Toibin

Shortlist
Assembly by Natasha Brown
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
 
Longlist
A Little Devil in America: Notes In Praise Of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh
Palmares by Gayl Jones
Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard
Everybody by Olivia Laing
Sea State by Tabitha Lasley
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia
A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood
2021
Winner
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

Shortlist
handiwork by Sara Baume
Indelicacy by Amina Cain
As You Were by Elaine Feeney
Poor by Caleb Femi
My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey

Longlist
The Actual by Inua Ellams
OK, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne
The Pink Line: The World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser
RENDANG by Will Harris
The Geez by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Just Us by Claudia Rankine
English Pastoral by James Rebanks
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Strangers by Rebecca Tamas
The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
2020
Winner
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Shortlist
Vertigo and Ghost by Fiona Benson
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons by Laura Cumming
Constellations by Sinead Gleeson
Victory by James Lasdun
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni
Grand Union by Zadie Smith

Longlist
Let Me Not Be Mad by AK Benjamin
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
The Heartland by Nathan Filer
Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger 
The Built Moment by Lavinia Greenlaw
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley 
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness
Frolic and Detour by Paul Muldoon
This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2019
Winner
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus

Shortlist
Milkman by Anna Burns
West by Carys Davies
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly
There There by Tommy Orange
The Crossway by Guy Stagg
Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young

Longlist
The Library of Ice by Nancy Campbell
Little by Edward Carey
Murmur by Will Eaves
Ghost Trees by Bob Gilbert
Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
Land of the Living by Georgina Harding
Us by Zaffar Kunial
Mothers by Chris Power
I Am Dynamite! by Sue Prideaux
Normal People by Sally Rooney
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Francis: A Life in Songs by Ann Wroe
2018
Winner
Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry
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Shortlist
The Day That Went Missing by Richard Beard
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout​
2017
Winner
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar
 
Shortlist
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
This Census-Taker by China Miéville
The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab & Leila Al-Shami
2015
Winner
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
 
Shortlist
Outline by Rachel Cusk
10:04 by Ben Lerner
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
How to be Both by Ali Smith
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
2014
Winner
Tenth of December by George Saunders
 
Shortlist
Red Doc by Anne Carson
A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava
Schroder by Amity Gaige
Last Friends by Jane Gardam
Benediction by Kent Haruf
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride