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1998
Trumpet by Jackie Kay


1997
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels


1996
Reading In the Dark by Seamus Deane


1995
Heart's Journey in Winter by James Buchan


1994
Debatable Land by Candia McWilliam


1993
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker


1992
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray


1991
The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd


1990
Shape Shifter by Pauline Melville


1989
Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City by Carol Lake


1988
Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann


1987
The Levels by Peter Benson


1986
Continent by Jim Crace


1985
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd


1984
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard


1983
Waterland by Graham Swift


1982
Where I Used to Play on the Green by Glyn Hughes


1981
Kepler by John Banville


1980
A Month in the Country by JL Carr


1979
Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan
The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera


1978
The Murderer by Roy Heath


1977
The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock


1976
Falstaff by Robert Nye


1975
Friends and Romans by Sylvia Clayton


1974
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge


1973
In the Country of the Skin by Peter Redgrove


1972
G by John Berger


1971
The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy


1970
When Did You Last See your Father? by Margaret Blount


1969
Poor Lazarus by Maurice Leitch


1968
A Song and a Dance by PJ Kavanagh


1967
Winter Journey by Eva Figes


1966
The Dear Green Place by Archie Hind


1965  
Crumb Borne by Clive Barry