2025Winner
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands Runner-up Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin Shortlist Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent Clinical Intimacy by Ewan Gass Monumenta by Lara Haworth The Coast Road by Alan Murrin |
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2024Winner
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu Runner-up Now I am Here by Chidi Ebere Shortlist Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick The Dimensions of a Cave by Greg Jackson The Old Haunts by Allan Radcliffe |
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2023Winner
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Runner-up The Gifts by Liz Hyder Shortlist The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn Other Names for Love by Taymour Soomro |
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2022Winner
Peterdown by David Annand Runner-Up Animal by Lisa Taddeo Shortlist Under the Blue by Oana Aristide Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder |
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2021Winner
As You Were by Elaine Feeney Runner-up Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara Shortlist The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean All the Water in the World by Karen Raney Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart Love and other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward |
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2020Winner
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 |
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2019Winner
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 |
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2018Winner
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 |
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2017Winner
The Midnight Watch by David Dyer Runner-up This Living & immortal Thing by Austin Duffy |
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2016Winner
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah Runner-up Pillow Man by Nick Coleman |
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2015Winner
The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison Runner-up Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author by Paul Ewen |
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2014Winner
Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston Runner-up Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi |
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2013Winner
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore Runner-up Hinterland by Caroline Brothers |
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2012Winner
Africa Junction by Ginny Baily Runner-up My Former Heart by Cressida Connolly |
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2011Winner
Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson Runner-up Micka by Frances Kay |
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2010Winner
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne |
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2009Winner
Missy by Chris Hannan |
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2008Winner
24 for 3 by Jennie Walker |
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2007Winner
This Time of Dying by Reina James |
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2006Winner
Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey |
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2005Winner
Mr Vogel by Lloyd Jones |
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2004Winner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon |
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2003Winner
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson |
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2002Winner
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri |
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2001Winner
The Long Afternoon by Giles Waterfield |
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2000Winner
Ascension Day by Chris Dolan |
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1999Winner
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills |
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1998Winner
The Boy Who Went Away by Eli Gottlieb |
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1997Winner
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker |
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1996Winner
Gagarin & I by Stephen Blanchard |
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1995Winner
Hester by Christopher Bigsby |
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1994Winner
Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore |
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1993Winner
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow |
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1992Winner
News from a Foreign Country Came by Alberto Manguel |
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1991Winner
Halo by John Loveday |
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1990Winner
Chimera by Simon Mawer |
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