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