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2020
Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough
2019
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux

2018
Mr Lear by Jenny Uglow

2017
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
 
2016
The Past by Tessa Hadley
 
2015
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
 
2014
Dear Boy by Emily Berry
 
2013
Out There by Jamie McKendrick
 
2012
There but for the… by Ali Smith
 
2011
What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam
 
2010
A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald
2009
The World Is What It Is by Patrick French
 
2008
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
 
2007
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland
 
2006
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
 
2005
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
 
2004
John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate
 
2003
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
 
2002
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy
 
2001
Hey Yeah Right Get a Life by Helen Simpson
 
2000
The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley
1999
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
 
1998
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa by Charles Nicholl
 
1997
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
 
1996
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
 
1995
Collected Poems by James Michie
 
1994
In the Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears
 
1993
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow
 
1992
Of Love and Asthma by Ferdinand Mount
 
1991
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
 
1990
Short Afternoons by Kit Wright
1989
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
 
1988
Behind the Wall: A Journey through China by Colin Thubron
 
1983
Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates
 
1982
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
 
1981
St. Kilda's Parliament by Douglas Dunn
 
1980
Arcadia by Christopher Reid
1979
Kindergarten by PS Rushforth
 
1978
Walter by David Cook
 
1977
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
 
1976
Falstaff by Robert Nye
 
1975
Changing Places by David Lodge
 
1974
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
 
1970
Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read
1969
King Log by Geoffrey Hill
 
1968
Early Renaissance by Michael Levey
 
1967
The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn
 
1965
The Old Boys by William Trevor
 
1964
Mr Stone and the Knights Companion by VS Naipaul
 
1963
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne
 
1962
The Sun Doctor by Robert Shaw
 
1961
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
 
1960
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
1958
A Beginning by Dom Moraes
 
1944
Letters to Malaya by Martyn Skinner
 
1943
The Cruel Solstice & The Iron Laurel by Sidney Keyes
 
1942
England Is My Village by John Llewellyn Rhys
 
1941
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
 
1940
London Fabric by James Pope-Hennessy
1939
Penthesperon by Christopher Hassall
 
1938
In Parenthesis by David Jones
 
1937
A Trophy of Arms by Ruth Pitter
 
1936
Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh
 
1935
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
 
1934
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
 
1933
Collected Poems by Vita Sackville-West
 
1932
The Fountain by Charles Morgan
 
1931
Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien

​1930
The End of the World by Geoffrey Dennis
1929
The Stricken Deer by Lord David Cecil
 
1928
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
 
1927
Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
 
1926
The Land by Vita Sackville-West
 
1925
Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey
 
1924
The Spanish Farm by Ralph Hale Mottram
 
1923
Lady into Fox by David Garnett
 
1922
The Shepherd by Edmund Blunden
 
1921
The Death of Society by Romer Wilson
 
1920
Poems New and Old by John Freeman
 
1919
The Queen of China by Edwards Shanks