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2025

Winner
Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman by Nuzha Nuseibeh

Shortlist
The Rest of You by Maame Blue
Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain by Aniefiok Ekpoudom
Everest by Ashani Lewis
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Manny and the Baby by Varaidzo
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Longlist
The Thirty Before Thirty List by Tasneem Abdur-Rashid
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them by Ekow Eshun
Determination by Tawseef Khan
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J Lee
Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli
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2024

Winner
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Swindled The World by Yepoka Yeebo

Shortlist
Self Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant
Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
Boundary Road by Ami Rao

Longlist
River Spirit by Leila Aboulela
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan
Elsewhere by Yan Ge
A Pebble in the Throat by Aasmah Mir
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Azucar by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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2023

Winner
None of the Above by Travis Alabanza

Shortlist
Takeaway by Angela Hui
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel
Hiding to Nothing by Anita Pati

Longlist
Birdgirl by Mya-Rose Craig
The Attic Child by Lola Jaye
Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu
Losing the Plot by Derek Owusu
Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed
The Room Between Us by Denise Saul
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2022

Winner
The Roles We Play by Sabba Khan

Shortlist
Consumed: A Sister's Story by Arifa Akbar
Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi
Like a Tree, Walking by Vahni Capildeo
Keeping the House by Tice Cin
Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller

Longlist
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi
Honorifics by Cynthia Miller
The Khan by Saima Mir
Things We Do Not Tell People We Love by Huma Qureshi
Brown Baby by Nikesh Shukla
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2021

Winner
The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Shortlist
Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante
Inferno by Catherine Cho
My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long
Are We Home Yet by Katy Massey
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez

Longlist
[re: desire] by Afshan D'Souza-Lodhi
Poor by Caleb Femi
A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf
The Address Book by Deirdre Mask
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
What Is Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
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2020

Winner
Afropean: Notes From Black Europe by Johny Pitts

Shortlist
The Black Flamingo​ by Dean Atta
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
Suncatcher by Romesh Gunesekera

Longlist
Golden Child by Claire Adam
Surge by Jay Bernard
Asha & the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan
The Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats by Maya Goodfellow
This Brutal House by Niven Govinden
Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie
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2019

Winner
In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne​

Shortlist
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures by Roma Agrawal
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire by Akala
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
The Boy At The Back of The Class by Onjali Q Rauf​

Longlist
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas
The Healing Next Time by Roy McFarlane
Ponti by Sharlene Teo​
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2017

Winner
Why I‘m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Shortlist
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
Kumakanda by Kayo Chongonyi
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandaswamy
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
 
Longlist
Come All You Little Persons by John Agard
Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime by Jeffrey Boakye
Worry Angels by Sita Brahmachari
Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Come Let Us Sing Anyway by Leone Ross
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
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2016

Winner
The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross
 
Shortlist
The Girl Of Ink And Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
Speak Gigantular by Irenosen Okojie
Black And British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
Another Day In The Death Of America by Gary Younge
 
Longlist
Chasing the Stars by Malorie Blackman
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
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Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence
Augustown by Kei Miller
In the Bonesetter’s Waiting Room: Travels through Indian Medicine by Aarathi Prasad
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