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2020
Winner
Golden Child by Claire Adam

Runner-Up
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Shortlist
Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
The Travelers by Regina Porter
2019
Winner
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

Runner Up
West by Carys Davies

Shortlist
What We’re Teaching Our Sons by Owen Booth
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
A Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
Who’s Who When Everyone is Someone Else by CD Rose
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
 2018
Winner
Radio Sunrise by Anietie Isong
 
Runner-up
The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr by Frances Maynard
 
Shortlist
Darke by Rick Gekoski
Yes by Anne Patterson
The Woolgrower’s Companion by Joy Rhoades​
2017
Winner
The Midnight Watch by David Dyer
 
Runner-up
This Living & immortal Thing by Austin Duffy
2016
Winner
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
 
Runner-up
Pillow Man by Nick Coleman
2015
Winner
The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison
 
Runner-up
Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author by Paul Ewen
2014
Winner
Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston
 
Runner-up
Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi
2013
Winner
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
 
Runner-up
Hinterland by Caroline Brothers
2012
Winner
Africa Junction by Ginny Baily
 
Runner-up
My Former Heart by Cressida Connolly
2011
Winner
Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
 
Runner-up
Micka by Frances Kay

Winners

2010
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
 
2009
Missy by Chris Hannan
 
2008
24 for 3 by Jennie Walker
 
2007
This Time of Dying by Reina James
 
2006
Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey
 
2005
Mr Vogel by Lloyd Jones
 
2004
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
 
2003
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
 
2002
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
 
2001
The Long Afternoon by Giles Waterfield
 
2000
Ascension Day by Chris Dolan
1999
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
 
1998
The Boy Who Went Away by Eli Gottlieb
 
1997
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
 
1996
Gagarin & I by Stephen Blanchard
 
1995
Hester by Christopher Bigsby
 
1994
Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore
 
1993
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow
 
1992
News from a Foreign Country Came by Alberto Manguel
 
1991
Halo by John Loveday
 
1990
Chimera by Simon Mawer