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
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 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
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
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Chasing the Stars by Malorie Blackman Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (Nina Is Not OK by Shappi Khorsandi) WITHDRAWN Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence Augustown by Kei Miller In the Bonesetter’s Waiting Room: Travels through Indian Medicine by Aarathi Prasad