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Stewart 2003 Winner Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson 2002 Winner Virgins of Venice by Mary Laven Winner (withdrawn) The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru 2001 Winner The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones 2000 Winner Leadville by Edward Platt Shortlist The Hunter by Julia Leigh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