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2020
Shortlist
Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Lote by Shola von Reinhold
2019
Winner
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

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Travellers by Helon Habila
Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall
Girl by Edna O'Brien
2018
Winner
Crudo by Olivia Laing

Shortlist
Murmur by Will Eaves
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
2017
Winner
Attrib by Eley Williams
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Shortlist
American War by Omar El Akkad
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
2016
Winner
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear  McBride
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Shortlist
A Country Road by Jo Baker
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan
2015
You Don't Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits
 
2014
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
 
2013
Harvest by Jim Crace
 
2012
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner
 
2011
You and I by Padgett Powell
 
2010
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
 
2009
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
 
2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
 
2007
Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben
 
2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
 
2005
Saturday by Ian McEwan
 
2004
GB84 by David Peace
 
2003
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
 
2002
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
 
2001
Something Like a House by Sid Smith
 
2000
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
 
1999
Renegade or Halo2 by Timothy Mo
 
1998
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
 
1997
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
 
1996
Last Orders by Graham Swift
 
1996
Justine by Alice Thompson
 
1995
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
 
1994
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
 
1993
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
 
1992
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
 
1991
Downriver by Iain Sinclair
 
1990
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
 
1989
A Disaffection by James Kelman
 
1988
A Season In The West by Piers Paul Read
 
1987
The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay Brown
 
1986
Persephone by Jenny Joseph
 
1985
Winter Garden by Robert Edric
 
1984
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
 
1983
Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates
 
1982
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
 
1981
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
 
1981
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
 
1980
Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee
 
1979
Darkness Visible by William Golding
 
1978
Plumb by Maurice Gee
 
1977
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
 
1976
Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
 
1975
The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore
 
1974
Monsieur, Or The Prince Of Darkness by Lawrence Durrell
 
1973
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
 
1972
G by John Berger
 
1971
A Guest Of Honour by Nadine Gordimer
 
1969
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
 
1968
The Gasteropod by Maggie Ross
 
1967
Jerusalem The Golden by Margaret Drabble
 
1966
Such by Christine Brooke-Rose
 
1966
Langrishe, Go Down by Aiden Higgins
 
1965
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
 
1964
The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy
 
1963
A Slanting Light by Gerda Charles
 
1962
Act Of Destruction by Ronald Hardy
 
1961
The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson
 
1960
Imperial Caesar by Rex Warner
 
1959
The Devil's Advocate by Morris West
 
1958
The Middle Age Of Mrs Eliot by Angus Wilson
 
1957
At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
 
1956
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
 
1955
Mother And Son by Ivy Compton-Burnett
 
1954
The New Men and The Masters in sequence by CP Snow
 
1953
Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy
 
1952
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
 
1951
Father Goose by WC Chapman-Mortimer
 
1950
Through The Valley by Robert Henriques
 
1949
The Far Cry by Emma Smith
 
1948
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
 
1947
Eustace And Hilda by LP Hartley
 
1946
Poor Man's Tapestry by G Oliver Onions
 
1945
Travellers by LAG Strong
 
1944
Young Tom by Forrest Reid
 
1943
Tales From Bective Bridge by Mary Lavin
 
1942
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
 
1941
A House Of Children by Joyce Cary
 
1940
The Voyage by Charles Morgan
 
1939
After Many A Summer Dies The Swan by Aldous Huxley
 
1938
A Ship Of The Line by CS Forester
Flying Colours by CS Forester
 
1937
Highland River by Neil M Gunn
 
1936
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
 
1935
The Root And The Flower by LH Myers
 
1934
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
 
1933
England, Their England by AG Macdonell
 
1932
Boomerang by Helen Simpson
 
1931
Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien
 
1930
Miss Mole by EH Young
 
1929
The Good Companions by JB Priestley
 
1928
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
 
1927
Portrait Of Clare by Francis Brett Young
 
1926
Adam's Breed by Radclyffe Hall
 
1925
The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty
 
1924
A Passage to India by EM Forster
 
1923
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
 
1922
Lady into Fox by David Garnett
 
1921
Memoirs Of A Midget by Walter de la Mare
 
1920
The Lost Girl by DH Lawrence
 
1919
The Secret City by Hugh Walpole
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