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2021
Winner
Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner

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Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
Assembly by Natasha Brown
A Shock by Keith Ridgway
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross
little scratch by Rebecca Watson
2020
Winner
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M John Harrison

Shortlist
Mr. Beethoven by Paul Griffiths
A Lover’s Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
Meanwhile in Dopamine City by DBC Pierre
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Bina by Anakana Schofield
2019
Winner
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

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Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Good Day? by Vesna Main
We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner
2018
Winner
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
 
Shortlist
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Murmur by Will Eaves
In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
The Cemetery in Barnes by Gabriel Josipovici
Crudo by Olivia Laing​
2017
Winner
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
 
Shortlist
A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
Playing Possum by Kevin Davey
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Phone by Will Self​
2016
Winner
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
 
Shortlist
Transit by Rachel Cusk
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
2015
Winner
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
 
Shortlist
Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beard
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Magnus Mills
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell
2014
Winner
How to be Both by Ali Smith
 
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Outline by Rachel Cusk
The Absent Therapist by Will Eaves
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
J by Howard Jacobson
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
2013
Winner
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
 
Shortlist
Harvest by Jim Crace
Exodus by Lars Iyer
Red or Dead by David Peace
Artful by Ali Smith
tapestry by Philip Terry