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2026

Shortlist
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Helm by Sarah Hall
Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line by Elizabeth Lovatt
Endling by Maria Reva
A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

Longlist
TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker
Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwell Brown
The Benefactors by Wendy  Erskine
This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures by SJ Kim
Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry
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2025

Winner
Ootlin by Jenni Fagan
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Shortlist
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
Poor Artists by Gabrielle de la Puente & Zarina Muhammad (The White Pube)
Mrs Jekyll by Emma Glass
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands
The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trail of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Longlist
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them by Ekow Eshun
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by Keiran Goddard
White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany’s Far Right by Jacob Kushner
England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee
The Horse by Willy Vlautin
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2023/24

Winner
Kick The Latch by Kathryn Scanlan

Shortlist
Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder
O Brother by John Niven
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Longlist
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Bellies by Nicola Dinan
Busy Being Free by Emma Forrest
Is This OK? by Harriet Gibsone
Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
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2022

Winner
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
 
Shortlist
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
About A Son by David Whitehouse
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
 
Longlist
Oxblood by Tom Benn
Wayward by Vashti Bunyan
Keeping the House by Tice Cin
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
Your Show by Ashley Hickson-Lovence
The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
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2021

Winner
A Little Devil in America: Notes In Praise Of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
 
Shortlist
Come Join Our Disease by Sam Byers
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
Sea State by Tabitha Lasley
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
 
Longlist
Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
A River Called Time by Courttia Newland
In The End it Was All About Love by Musa Okwonga
Klopp: My Liverpool Romance by Anthony Quinn
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
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2020

Winner
This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev
 
Shortlist
Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Motherwell by Deborah Orr
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
 
Longlist
Theft by Luke Brown
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes
Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan
Godspeed by Casey Legler
Weather by Jenny Offill
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2019

Winner
For the Good Times by David Keenan
 
Shortlist
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
This Brutal House by Niven Govinden
Lanny by Max Porter
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
 
Longlist
Chamber Music: Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (in 36 Pieces) by Will Ashon
Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine
Lowborn by Kerry Hudson
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
The Vogue by Eoin McNamee
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
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2018

Winner
Census by Jesse Ball
 
Shortlist
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
Crudo by Olivia Laing
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
 
Longlist
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
The Princess of Herself by Roberta Allen
Madame Zero by Sarah Hall
Keegan and Dalglish by Richard T Kelly
A Hero for High Times by Ian Marchant
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
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2017

Winner
The Long Drop by Denise Mina
 
Shortlist
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
This Is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
 
Longlist
Between Them by Richard Ford
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
I Hate the Internet: A Novel by Jarrett Kobek
Estuary: Out from London to the Sea by Rachel Lichtenstein
The Fact Of A Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Autumn by Ali Smith
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2016

Winner
All That Man Is by David Szalay
 
Shortlist
A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son's Search for his Mother by Jeremy Gavron
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain by Adrian Tempany
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2015

Winner
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies
 
Shortlist
Midland by Honor Gavin
Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunesekera
Original Rockers by Richard King
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
 
Longlist
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
Mad Men and Bad Men: What Happened when British Politics met Advertising by Sam Delaney
Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author by Paul Ewen
10:04 by Ben Lerner
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
Spoiled Brats by Simon Rich
33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton
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2014

Winner
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
 
Shortlist
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family by Richard Benson
The Kills by Richard House
The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing
American Interior by Gruff Rhys
The Free by Willy Vlautin
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2013

Winner
Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers
 
Shortlist
How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright
The Footballer Who Could Fly by Duncan Hamilton
People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows by Richard Lloyd Parry
Myra, Beyond Saddleworth by Jean Rafferty
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