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2010
Winner
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
 
Shortlist
Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine
Witch Light (Corrag) by Susan Fletcher
A Light Song of Light by Kei Miller
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Bomber County by Daniel Swift
 
2009
Winner
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
 
Shortlist
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
The Striped World by Emma Jones
Six Months in Sudan by James Maskalyk
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart
 
2008
Winner
The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings
 
Shortlist
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
Selling Your Father's Bones by Brian Schofield
 
2006
Winner
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
 
Shortlist
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley
Occupational Hazards by Rory Stewart
 
2005
Winner
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
 
Shortlist
Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
The State of the Prisons by Sinéad Morrissey
Newfoundland by Rebbecca Ray
Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok
 
2004
Winner
Boy A by Jonathan Trigell
 
Shortlist
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People by Neil Bennun
The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright
Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
 
2003
Winner
Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson
 
2002
Winner
Virgins of Venice by Mary Laven
 
Winner (withdrawn)
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
 
2001
Winner
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
 
2000
Winner
Leadville by Edward Platt
 
Shortlist
The Hunter by Julia Leigh
The Book of Love by Roddy Lumsden
Hungry for Home Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland by Cole Moreton
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
 
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
1999
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
 
1998
The Ugliest House in the World by Peter Ho Davies
 
1997
Eclipse of the Sun by Phil Whitaker
 
1996
Heading Inland by Nicola Barker
 
1995
Motel Nirvana by Melanie McGrath
 
1994
What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy) by Jonathan Coe
 
1993
On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul by Jason Goodwin
 
1992
Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale
 
1991
Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by AL Kennedy
 
1990
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
 
1989
Sylvia Townsend Warner by Claire Harman
 
1988
The March Fence by Matthew Yorke
 
1987
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
 
1986
Loving Roger by Tim Parks
 
1985
The Laird of Abbotsford by AN Wilson
 
1984
Dangerous Play Andrew Motion
 
1983
The Slow Train to Milan by Lisa St Aubin de Terán
 
1982
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
 
1980
The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea by Desmond Hogan
 
1979
The Shining Mountain by Peter Boardman
 
1978
The Sweets of Pimlico by AN Wilson
 
1977
Vorticism & Abstract Art in the First Machine Age by Richard Cork
 
1975
Knuckle by David Hare
Cushing's Crusade by Tim Jeal
 
1974
The Girl Who Passed for Normal by Hugh Fleetwood
 
1973
A Warm Gun by Peter Smalley
 
1972
The Albatross by Susan Hill
 
1971
Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
 
1970
The People's War by Angus Calder
 
1969
Without a City Wall by Melvyn Bragg
 
1968
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
 
1967
The Seahorse by Anthony Masters
 
1966
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
 
1965
The White Father by Julian Mitchell
 
1964
Up the Junction by Nell Dunn
 
1963
Two Lives by Peter Marshall
 
1962
An Introduction to the House of Commons by Robert Rhodes James
A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems by Edward Lucie-Smith
 
1961
Flight into Camden by David Storey
 
1960
At Fever Pitch by David Caute
 
1959
A Long Way from London by Dan Jacobson
 
1958
The Mystic Masseur by VS Naipaul
 
1957
The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond
 
1956
Voices Under the Window by John Hearne
 
1955
The Moon to Play With by John Wiles
 
1954
The Hostile Sun by Tom Stacey
 
1953
The Return Home by Rachel Trickett
 
1951
The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard
 
1950
Adventure Lit Their Star by Kenneth Allsop
 
1949
Maiden's Trip by Emma Smith
 
1948
The Wind Cannot Read by Richard Mason
 
1947
Moondrop to Gascony by Anne-Marie Walters
 
1946
My Bird Sings by Oriel Malet
 
1945
The Sea Eagle by James Aldridge
 
1944
The Last Inspection by Alun Lewis
 
1943
Beauty for Ashes by Morwenna Donnelly
 
1942
Sunk by a Mine by Michael Richey
 
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