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2020
Winner
Hello Friend We Missed You by Richard Owain Roberts
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Shortlist
Hashim & Family by Shahnaz Ahsan
Underdogs: Tooth and Nail by Chris Bonnello
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
​Akin by Emma Donoghue
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Longlist
False Values by Ben Aaronovitch
Out of Touch by Haleh Agar
The Island Child by Molly Aitken
The Silence by Susan Allott
The Cottage of Curiosities by Celia Anderson
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
A Million Dreams by Dani Atkins
Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
A Life Eternal by Richard Ayre
The Girl I Used to Be by JA Baker
Between Beirut and the Moon by A Naji Bakhti
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Young Survivors by Debra Barnes
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
Please Do Not Ask for Mercy as a Refusal Often Offends by Paul Bassett Davies
My Perfect Sister by Penny Batchelor
Her Mother’s Secret by Jan Baynham
A Quiet Death in Italy by Tom Benjamin
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Pondweed by Lisa Blower
Bad Love by Maame Blue
The All True Adventures (and Rare Education) of the Daredevil Daniel Bones by Owen Booth
Cows Can’t Jump by Philip Bowne
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne
The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley
No Way Out by DC Brockwell
The Crossing by Matt Brolly
The Strange Adventures of H by Sarah Burton
Jack & Bet by Sara Butler
The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver
Only Human by Diane Chandler
Bridge 108 by Anne Charnock
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Perdition’s Child by Anne Coates
Spirited by Julie Cohen
The River Capture by Mary Costello
Ring the Hill by Tom Cox
The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig
One Perfect Morning by Pamela Crane
The Curator by MW Craven
The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually by Helen Cullen
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
King of the Crows by Russell Day
Black River by Will Dean
Shh by Jocelyn Dexter
#MeToo by Patricia Dixon
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Flake by Matthew Dooley
Never Saw You Coming by Hayley Doyle
Threshold by Rob Doyle
Little White Lies by Philippa East
The Trail by James Ellson
Actress by Anne Enright
We Are Animals by Tim Ewins
As You Were by Elaine Feeney
People Like Us by Louise Fein
The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
Random Sh*t Flying through the Air by Jackson Ford
Bella by RM Francis
The Saviours by Maeve Galvin
The Girl from the Hermitage by Molly Gartland
All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
Agency by William Gibson
The Lost Lights of St Kilda by Elisabeth Gifford
The Neighbours by Nicola Gill
We Are Family by Nicola Gill
Archimimus by Clio Gray
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Fall Out by Mark Grenside
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
One Mistake by Rona Halsall
Jackie by Julie Hamill
Silver by Chris Hammer
Reunion by Heleyne Hammersley
This Lovely City by Louise Hare
This Is Not a Love Story by Mary Hargreaves
Where We Belong by Anstey Harris
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M John Harrison
Everything Is Fine by Gillian Harvey
I Know Your Secret by Ruth Heald
Another Us by Kirsten Hesketh
They Went Left by Monica Hesse
A Girl Made of Air by Nydia Hetherington
The Breach by MT Hill
Dead Wrong by Noelle Holten
Stoker’s Wilde West by Steve Hopstaken & Melissa Prusi
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes
Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Family Tree by Sairish Hussain
Galactic Keegan by Scott Innes
Chasing Hares by Christina James
The Sound Mirror by Heidi James
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
The City We Became by NK Jemisin
The Storm by Amanda Jennings
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Ant Kind by Charlie Kaufman
The Perfect Life by Valerie Keogh
Grown Ups by Marian Keyes
Riviera Gold by Laurie R King
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale
Hunted by Alex Knight
All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson
She Came to Stay by Eleni Kyriacou
You People by Nikita Lalwani
The Weight of Small Things by Julie Lancaster
Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carre
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
If I Can’t Have You by Charlotte Levin
For When I’m Gone by Rebecca Ley
Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
Can You See Her? by SE Lynes
Crescent City by Sarah J Maas
How to Be Nowhere by Tim MacGabhann
SLOOT by Ian Macpherson
The Lonely Fajita by Abigail Mann
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Secrets of Saffron Hall by Clare Marchant
Saturdays at Noon by Rachel Marks
What Lies Between Us by John Marrs
Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
Killing Mind by Angela Marsons
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
Just Friends by Holly McCulloch
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Escape to the Art Cafe by Sue McDonagh
The Last Crossing by Brian McGilloway
Beneath the Streets by Adam MacQueen
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
The Day That Changed Everything by Catherine Miller
Angelica, Paintress of Minds by Miranda Miller
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee
Deadly Harm by Owen Mullen
The Treatment by Michael Nath
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
Mr. Nice by John Nicholl
The Ground Is Full of Holes by Suzy Norman
Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O'Donoghue
Weather by Jenny Offill
Curse the Day by Judith O'Reilly
The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor
Girl, Lost by Vikki Patis
The Silent House by Nell Pattison
The Codes of Love by Hannah Persaud
All the Beautiful Liars by Sylvia Petter
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
46% Better than Dave by Alastair Puddick
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
Midnight’s Twins by Holly Race
Love Orange by Natasha Randall
The Witch House by Ann Rawson
Making Wishes at Bay View by Jessica Redland
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Rabbit Hole by Jon Richter
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff
Death of a Painter by Matthew Ross
A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson
I Know You Lied by Lesley Sanderson
What Is Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
English Monsters by James Scudamore
The Summer of Taking Chances by Lynne Shelby
Summer by Ali Smith
The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith
All in Her Head by Nikki Smith
The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
Marah Chase and the Fountain of Youth by Jay Stringer
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
Here We Are by Graham Swift
Fearless Girl by Emma Tallon
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Bent by Joe Thomas
One Scheme of Happiness by Ali Thurm
Don’t You Know There’s a War on? by Janet Todd
Pine by Francine Toon
Redhead by The Side of The Road by Anne Tyler
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
Saving Lucia by Anna Vaught
Running Hard by Meredith Vivian
Lote by Shola von Reinhold
The Choice by Clare Wade
The Scoop by Cat Walker
Secrets of a Serial Killer by Rosie Walker
Gamble by Anita Waller
Cut to the Bone by Roz Watkins
We Begin At the End by Chris Whitaker
The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams
Twelve Days by Paul Williams
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Water Must Fall by Nick Wood
The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
Braised Pork by An Yu
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

2019
Winner
Supper Club by Lara Williams
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Shortlist
Flames by Robbie Arnott
Skin by Liam Brown
Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin
The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James
Spring by Ali Smith
 
Longlist
Silence Is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia
The Dollmaker by Nina Allan
A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther
GlassHouse by Louis Armand
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
The Bead Collector by Sefi Atta
Bunny by Mona Awad
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
The Woman at Number 19 by JA Baker
The Body Lies by Jo Baker
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
Lost Property by Laura Beatty
Call Me Star Girl by Louise Beech
November Road by Lou Berney
Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston
Sissy by Ben Borek
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Lonely Hearts Crime Club by Tanya Bullock
The Closer I Get by Paul Burston
Cygnet by Season Butler
Don’t Think a Single Thought by Diana Cambridge
Attend by West Camel
Little by Edward Carey
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Good Samaritans by Will Carver
This Stolen Life by Jeevani Charika
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
The Ice House by Tim Clare
What She Saw by Wendy Clarke
The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
The Binding by Bridget Collins
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Dignity by Alys Conran
Your Fault by Andrew Cowan
Utopia by Peter Cowlam
Begotten Not Made by Conal Creedon
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Humans, Being by Gareth Davies
Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff
Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin
Red Snow by Will Dean
Puffin Boy by Tony Dickenson
Rosie and Ruby by Patricia Dixon
Slack-Tide by Elanor Dymott
the everrumble by Michelle Elvy
Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
An Honest Man by Ben Fergusson
Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Night for Day by Patrick Flanery
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
The Other Half of Augusta Hope by Joanna Glen
Little Darlings by Melanie Golding
J SS Bach by Martin Goodman
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
Haverscroft by SA Harris
Time’s Tide by Adrian Harvey
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Snegurochka by Judith Heneghan
Joe Country by Mick Herron
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
The Lingering by SJI Holliday
Bindlestiff by Wayne Holloway
Stoker’s Wilde by Steve Hopstaken & Melissa Prusi
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
Europe at Dawn by Dave Hutchinson
The Unmaking of Ellie Rook by Sandra Ireland
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Snakes by Sadie Jones
The Wild Wind by Sheena Kalayil
We Are Made of Earth by Panos Karnezis
Disturbance by Marianne Kavanagh
Zed by Joanna Kavenna
For the Good Times by David Keenan
The Study Circle by Haroun Khan
The Ottoman Secret by Raymond Khoury
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
What Lies Buried by Margaret Kirk
The Last Words of Madeleine Anderson by Helen Kitson
The Sleepwalker by Joseph Knox
Fallible Justice by Laura Laakso
The Red Gene by Barbara Lamplugh
The Wall by John Lanchester
Victory by James Lasdun
The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S Laskar
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
She Lies in Wait by Gytha Lodge
The Disappeared by Amy Lord
My House Is Falling Down by Mary Loudon
Asylum by Marcus Low
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal
Mr Todd’s Reckoning by Iain Maitland
You Die Next by Stephanie Marland
The Peat Dead by Allan Martin
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy
The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
The Wave by Virginia Moffatt
The Carer by Deborah Moggach
Oh When The Saints by Peter Money
Nina X by Ewan Morrison
Black Car Burning by Helen Mort
Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich
Pilgrim Tale by Tim Murgatroyd
As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash
Chinese Spring by Christopher New
The Heavens by Sandra Newman
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
My Coney Island Baby by Billy O'Callaghan
Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor
A River in the Trees by Jacqueline O'Mahony
The Death of Baseball by Orlando Ortega-Medina
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by KJ Parker
The Redeemed by Tim Pears
Nobody’s Wife by Laura Pearson
Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto
Lanny by Max Porter
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
From the Wreck by Jane Rawson
Something Like Breathing by Angela Readman
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
The Black Prince by Adam Roberts
Homing by Johanna Robinson
Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
Mothlight by Adam Scovell
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The Winter Road by Adrian Selby
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind by Deirdre Shanahan
Crocodile by Daniel Shand
Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Doggerland by Ben Smith
Bitter Leaves by Tabatha Stirling
Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri
Seven Deadly Swords by Peter Sutton
Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson
The Boy in the Photo by Nicole Trope
Muscle by Alan Trotter
The Weighing of the Heart by Paul Tudor Owen
The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Finer Things by David Wharton
Paris, 7am by Liza Wieland
Plume by Will Wiles
Natural Complexions by D Harlan Wilson
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood
The Iron Bird by Robert Woodshaw
Breakfast in Bogota by Helen Irene Young​
2018
Winner
​Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley

Shortlist
Sealed by Naomi Booth
​Dark Pines by Will Dean
Raising Sparks by Ariel Kahn
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Three Dreams in the Key of G by Marc Nash
 
Longlist
Leila by Prayaag Akbar
Swansong by Kerry Andrew
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Children of Our Age by AM Bakalar
Blood of Assassins by RJ Barker
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
White Houses by Amy Bloom
Dune Song by Anissa M Bouziane
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
Ironopolis by Glen James Brown
Milkman by Anna Burns
Zero Hours by Neil Campbell
Singed by Daniela Cascella
The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
The Cloven by Brian Catling
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh
Brother by David Chariandy
Gun Love by Jennifer Clement 
The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements
Songs of Innocence by Anne Coates
A Murder to Die For by Stevyn Colgan
The Pursuit of Ordinary by Nigel Jay Cooper
Presumed Dead by Mason Cross
The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen
Water and Glass by Abi Curtis
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Vox by Christina Dalcher
West by Carys Davies
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow by Danny Denton
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
Murmur by Will Eaves
Ash by Alys Einion
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford
The Synapse Sequence by Daniel Godfrey
The Hunters by Kat Gordon
Connect by Julian Gough
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
She’s Not There by Tamsin Grey
In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
Flake by Fiona Hammond
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
London Rules by Mick Herron
What Happened to Us by Ian Holding
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Love After Love by Alex Hourston
Orchid and the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
The Date by Louise Jensen
The Time Before the Time to Come by Jill Johnson
Springtime at the Cider Kitchen by Fay Keenan
No Good Brother by Tyler Keevil
The Hoarder by Jess Kidd
The Continuity Girl by Patrick Kincaid
The Hope and Anchor by Julia Kite
Sal by Mick Kitson
May by Naomi Kruger
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Crudo by Olivia Laing
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
My Beautiful Imperial by Rhiannon Lewis
Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn
The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan
The Assembly of the Severed Head by Hugh Lupton
A Dead American in Paris by Seth Lynch
The Warehouse Industry by William Macbeth
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
A Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
Entanglement by Katy Mahood
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
Metamorphica by Zachary Mason
All That Was Lost by Alison May
The Parentations by Kate Mayfield
Anything You Do Say by Gillian McAllister
The Accidental Recluse by Tom McCulloch
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
Shadows by Jackie McLean
UnAmerican Activities by James Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
Uncommon Cruelty by Liz Mistry
The Maid’s Room by Fiona Mitchell
Echo Hall by Virginia Moffatt
The Great Unexpected by Dan Mooney
Missing by Alison Moore
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Queen of Bloody Everything by Joanna Nadin
The Third Reel by SJ Naudé
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
The Devil’s Highway by Gregory Norminton
The Baggage Carousel by David Olner
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Animal Lovers by Rob Palk
Night Time Cool by Jamie Paradise
Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park
Abernathy by Claire Patel Campbell
The Overstory by Richard Powers
An American Story by Christopher Priest
Fukushima Dreams by Zelda Rhiando
Fatal Inheritance by Rachel Rhys
The Lord of the Dead by Richard Rippon
From A Low And Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Holly Seddon
Problems by Jade Sharma
Albi by Hilary Shepherd
The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla
Winter by Ali Smith
I Still Dream by James Smythe
Darksoul by Anna Stephens
The Valley at the Centre of Our World by Malachy Tallack
Ponti by Sharlene Teo
The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
Travelling in the Dark by Emma Timpany
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Offline Project by Dan Tyte
Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
The Life of Almost by Anna Vaught
A Different River by Jo Verity
Don’t Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
Grace’s Day by William Wall
Break.Up by Joanna Walsh
Perfect Ten by Jacqueline Ward
Ideal Angels by Robert Welbourn
Dead Men’s Trousers by Irvine Welsh
Lacking Character by Curtis White
The Fountain In The Forest by Tony White
The Invisible Crowd by Ellen Wiles
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better by Benjamin Wood
Putney by Sofka Zinovieff​​
2017
Winner
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
 
Shortlist
Not Thomas by Sara Gethin
The Threat Level Remains Severe by Rowena Macdonald
The Ludlow Ladies’ Society by Ann O'Loughlin
Man with a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
 
Longlist
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Open My Eyes, That I May See Marvellous Things by Alice Allan
The Rift by Nina Allan
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
An American Decade by Richard Aronowitz
The Night Visitors by Jenn Ashworth & Richard V Hirst
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
Dark Water by Sara Bailey
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
Greatest Hits by Laura Barnett
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
The Gingerbread House by Kate Beaufoy
Two Cousins of Azov by Andrea Bennett
The Last Wave by Gillian Best
The Return of the Courtesan by Victoria Blake
The Cruelty of Lambs by Angelena Boden
No Place To Call Home by JJ Bola
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Guest by SJ Bradley
Sealskin by Su Bristow
Ink by Alice Broadway
The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
Marlena by Julie Buntin
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
In the Still by Jacqueline Chadwick
Larchfield by Polly Clark
Death’s Silent Judgement by Anne Coates
Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen
The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin
These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
Don’t Look for Me by Mason Cross
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
Our Bright Dark Summer by Richard Daniels
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Little Bird by Sharon Dempsey
Day 7 by Kerry Drewery
In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant
Goblin by Ever Dundas
The Dragonfly by Kate Dunn
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
The Hopkins Conundrum by Simon Edge
Doorways: A Bermuda Jones Casefile by Robert Enright
Finding Alison by Deirdre Eustace
Death of a Devil by Derek Farrell
The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie
Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith
All The Good Things by Clare Fisher
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
This is How We Talk by Julian Furman
All the Places I’ve Ever Lived by David Gafney
Every Fox is a Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (Deceased) by Marie Gameson
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Reconciliation for the Dead by Paul E Hardisty
The Dry by Jane Harper
Seeking Eden by Beverley Harvey
None So Blind by Alis Hawkins
The Other Twin by LV Hay
Spook Street by Mick Herron
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Flesh Evidence by Malcolm Hollingdrake
Pseudotooth by Verity Holloway
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Another Justified Sinner by Sophie Hopesmith
The Evening Road by Laird Hunt
The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
The Magic Places by Elizabeth Jenner
Travels with My Father by Karen Jennings
The Haunting of Henry Twist by Rebecca F John
Court of Lions by Jane Johnson
Wait for Me, Jack by Addison Jones
Anglesey Blue by Dylan H Jones
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandaswamy
The Dancing Girl and the Turtle by Karen Kao
English Animals by Laura Kaye
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Himself by Jess Kidd
Handcuffs, Truncheon, and a Polyester Thong by Gina Kirkham
The Friend by Dorothy Koomson
The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
At First Light by Vanessa LaFaye
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The State of Grace by Rachel Lucas
Legends of Persia by Jennifer Macaire
Being Simon Haines by Tom Vaughan MacAulay
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
An Honest Deceit by Guy Mankowski
How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
Rapeseed by Alwyn Marriage
The Wild Air by Rebecca Mascull
Dare to Fall by Estelle Maskame
Stronger Than Skin by Stephen May
The Gift Maker by Mark Mayes
Flesh of the Peach by Helen McClory
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
Narcissism for Beginners by Martine McDonagh
The Book of Harlan by Bernice L McFadden
The Watch House by Bernie McGill
Electric Souk by Rose McGinty
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
A Ton of Malice by Barry McKinley
Ithaca by Alan McMonagle
Under the Almond Tree by Laura McVeigh
An Unlikely Agent by Jane Menczer
All the Galaxies by Philip Miller
State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
We Shall Not All Sleep by Estep Nagy
Release by Patrick Ness
Beware the Cuckoo by Julie Newman
The End of the Day by Claire North
In the Absence of Absalon by Simon Okotie
Brat by Ghillian Potts
The Jungle by Pooja Puri
The Secret Wound by Deirdre Quiery
A Natural by Ross Raisin
Blame by Paul Read
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
A Song For Will by Hilary Robinson
The Tryst by Monique Roffey
Little Gold by Allie Rogers
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Unspeakable by Dilys Rose
“Green Lion” by Henrietta Rose-Innes
The Man Who Loved Islands by David F Ross
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
An English Guide to Birdwatching by Nicholas Royle
The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
Flesh and Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Mary’s the Name by Ross Sayer
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Dead Cat Bounce by Kevin Scott
Phone by Will Self
Fallow by Daniel Shand
The Prague Ultimatum by James Silvester
A Woman of Integrity by J David Simons
The Cardinal’s Man by MG Sinclair
The Red Cobra by Rob Sinclair
A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis
Autumn by Ali Smith
The Speech by Andrew Smith
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Falling Creatures by Katherine Stansfield
Widdershins by Helen Steadman
Conflicts of Interest by Terry Stiastny
How to Kill Friends and Implicate People by Jay Stringer
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic
A Sea of Straw by Julia Sutton
Players of the Game by Graeme K Talboys
Losing Juliet by June Taylor
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Missing Fay by Adam Thorpe
House of Names by Colm Toibin
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Eyes of the Blind by Alex Tresillian
A Thousand Paper Birds by Tor Udall
The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown
Spoils by Brian Van Reet
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
A Monster by Violet by Laura Wake
Not the Only Sky by Alyssa Warren
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Man Who Played Trains by Richard Whittle
The Goddess Project by Bryan Wigmore
Skin Deep by Laura Wilkinson
Street Song by Sheena Wilkinson
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
The Photographer by Meike Ziervogel
2016
Winner
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
 
Shortlist
Walking the Lights by Deborah Andrews
The Combinations by Louis Armand
What Will Remain by Dan Clements
The Less Than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote by Dan Micklethwaite
Chains of Sand by Jemma Wayne
 
Longlist
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir by Lesley Allen
The Storyteller by Kate Armstrong
The Last Days Of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
Fell by Jenn Ashworth
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
A Country Road by Jo Baker
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
The Mountain in My Shoe by Louise Beech
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Dodgers by Bill Beverly
The Wave by Lochlan Bloom
Sitting Ducks by Lisa Blower
Everyone Is Watching by Megan Bradbury
The Memory Stones by Caroline Brothers
Wild Life by Liam Brown
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Addlands by Tom Bullough
The Black Path by Paul Burston
Glass Houses by Jackie Buxton
The Swimming Pool by Louise Candlish
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Last Photograph by Emma Chapman
Tainted Love by Anna Chilvers
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The Girls by Emma Cline
Stickleback by Mark Connors
River of Ink by Paul MM Cooper
Paris Mon Amour by Isabel Costello
Dodge Rose by Jack Cox
The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
Transit by Rachel Cusk
The Confession of Stella Moon by Shelley Day
Zero K by Don DeLillo
Bright Stars by Sophie Duffy
Nowhere Girl by Ruth Dugdall
Country Life by Ken Edwards
Stone Seeds by Jo Ely
Back to Moscow by Guillermo Erades
Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens
The Wacky Man by Lyn G Farrell
What a Way to Go by Julia Forster
The Shapes Of Dogs’ Eyes by Harry Gallon
Nine Folds Make A Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan
The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
We Go Around in the Night Consumed By Fire by Jules Grant
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Infinite Rooms by David John Griffin
Epiphany Jones by Michael Grothaus
The Bastard Wonderland by Lee Harrison
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Graft by Matt Hill
Blood and Roses by Catherine Hokin
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
In Her Wake by Amanda Jennings
Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John
The Living by Anjali Joseph
Sometimes a River Song by Avril Joy
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
Dirt Road by James Kelman
Everything Love Is by Claire King
The Outside Lands by Hannah Kohler
Amy and the Fox by John Lake
Shtum by Jem Lester
Raven and Skull by Ashley Lister
Ghostbird by Carol Lovekin
Armadillos by PK Lynch
Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes
The Brilliant and Forever by Kevin MacNeil
Dodge and Burn by Seraphina Madsen
The Turning Tide by Brooke Magnanti
Sofia Khan is not Obliged by Ayisha Malik
Bad Samaritan by Michael J Malone
The Waves Burn Bright by Iain Maloney
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood
Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
The North Water by Ian McGuire
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Many by Wyl Menmuir
Knowing Anna by Sarah Meyrick
This Census-Taker by China Miéville
Augustown by Kei Miller
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
Death and the Seaside by Alison Moore
When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall
The Natashas by Yelena Moskovich
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Resolution Way by Carl Neville
Fractured by Clár Ni Chonghaile
Duff by Suzy Norman
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Dowry Blade by Cherry Potts
The Unforgotten by Laura Powell
The Gradual by Christopher Priest
The Amber Shadows by Lucy Ribchester
After She Fell by Mary-Jane Riley
The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts
A Mystery’s No Problem by Lou Rowan
As If I Were a River by Amanda Saint
Willnot by James Sallis
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter
Changed Times by Ethyl Smith
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
If You Look For Me I Am Not Here by Sarayu Srivatsa
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Hunters and Collectors by M Suddain
Owl Song at Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Melissa by Jonathan Taylor
Lingua Franca by William Thacker
Jihadi: A Love Story by Yusuf Toropov
Killing Hapless Alley by Anna Vaught
Smoke by Dan Vyleta
A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter
Love and a Dozen Roast Potatoes by Simon Wan
Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg
Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker
The Arrival of the Missives by Aliya Whiteley
The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken
The Blackbird Singularity by Matt Wilven
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Three Craws by James Yorkston
2015
Winner
Fishnet by Kirstin Innes
 
Shortlist
Shame by Melanie Finn
The Artificial Anatomy of Parks by Kat Gordon
Things We Have In Common by Tasha Kavanagh
Dark Star by Oliver Langmead
The Good Son by Paul McVeigh
 
Longlist
Abacus by Louis Armand
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beard
Dorek: Deaf and Unheard by Patricia Borlenghi
Real Monsters by Liam Brown
The Longest Fight by Emily Bullock
Tying Down the Lion by Joanna Campbell
Glass by Alex Christofi
Green Glowing Skull by Gavin Corbett
Across the Rebel Network by Peter Cowlam
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
The Limits of the World by Andrew Raymond Drennan
Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
All Involved by Ryan Gattis
A Moment More Sublime by Stephen Grant
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
One Third of Paradise by Julietta Harvey
The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon
Tokyo by Nicholas Hogg
In My House by Alex Hourston
The Bones of You by Debbie Howells
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
A Field Guide to Lost Things by Peter Jaeger
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock
Esperanza Street by Niyati Keni
Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
A Want of Kindness: A Novel of Queen Anne by Joanne Limburg
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
Pleasantville by Attica Locke
The Letters of Ivor Punch by Colin Macintyre
Mourning by Richard Makin
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
The Blue Horse by Philip Miller
Bitter Sixteen by Stefan Mohamed
Beauty Tips for Girls by Margaret Montgomery
The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray
The Rocks by Peter Nichols
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Black Neon by Tony O'Neill
Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
The Death House by Sarah Pinborough
Mercy Seat by Wayne Price
The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Out of Such Darkness by Robert Ronsson
Meridian by David Rose
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Way Down Dark by JP Smythe
The Secret to Not Drowning by Colette Snowden
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
The Shore by Sara Taylor
The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas
Find Me by Laura Van Den Berg
The Followers by Rebecca Wait
Rawblood by Catriona Ward
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
2014
Winner
The Visitors by Simon Sylvester
 
Shortlist
Cairo by Louis Armand
The Last Tiger by Tony Black
First time Solo by Iain Maloney
The Smoke Is Rising by Mahesh Rao
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
 
Longlist
Son of the Morning by Mark Alder
Faded Letters by Maurizio Ascari
Travelling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
In the Approaches by Nicola Barker
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
The Ghostly Father by Sue Barnard
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
Glow by Ned Beauman
The Dead Wife's Handbook by Hannah Beckerman
Dodger of the Dials by James Benmore
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
Life Drawing by Robin Black
The List: My Year of Sexual Adventures by Joanna Bolouri
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
Brick Mother by SJ Bradley
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Go To Work and Do Your Job. Care For Your Children. Pay Your Bills. Obey The Law. Buy Products. by Noah Cicero
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
131 by Julian Cope
The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Danielewski
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
The Cartographer of No Man's Land by PS Duffy
Tendrils by Lucy Duggan
The Circle by Dave Eggers
Six Pounds Eight Ounces by Rhian Elizabeth
Black Cloud by Juliet Escoria
The Good Children by Roopa Farooki
American Sycamore by Karen Fielding
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
The Book Of The Needle by Matthew Francis
The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee
Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed by Bradley Greenburg
Hild by Nicola Griffith
I am China by Xiaolu Guo
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Last Bus to Coffeeville by J Paul Henderson
Books by Charlie Hill
The Scrapbook by Carly Holmes
Wake by Anna Hope
Thirst by Kerry Hudson
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
Wounding by Heidi James
The Dig by Cynan Jones
Hotel Andromeda by Gabriel Josipovici
The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy
Indian Magic by Balraj Khanna
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
With a Zero at Its Heart by Charles Lambert
The Sudden Arrival of Violence by Malcolm Mackay
Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh
The Ghost Of Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin
We Are Called To Rise by Laura McBride
The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Caught by Lisa Moore
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Beastings by Benjamin Myers
British Story by Michael Nath
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
The Bees by Laline Paull
After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry
Hive Monkey (Ack-Ack Macaque) by Gareth L Powell
Orfeo by Richard Powers
The Fan by Danny Rhodes
Vulgar Things by Lee Rourke
Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla
Love And Fallout by Kathryn Simmonds
Devilskein and Dearlove by Alex Smith
Wild Ink by Richard Smyth
No Harm Can Come To A Good Man by James Smythe
Lost for Words by Edward St Aubyn
The Glasgow Coma Scale by Neil DA Stewart
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
The Tongues Of Men by Jonathan Trigell
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
Half Plus Seven by Dan Tyte
Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth
In Between dreams by Iman Verjee
The Free by Willy Vlautin
That Dark Remembered Day by Tom Vowler
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
After Before by Jemma Wayne
The Way Inn by Will Wiles
Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood
Once Upon A Timepiece by Starr Wood
2013
Winner
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
 
Shortlist
The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Little White Lies and Butterflies by Suzie Tullett
Anywhere's Better Than Here by Zoe Venditozzi
Magda by Meike Ziervogel
 
Longlist
A Modern Family by Socrates Adams
The Breath of Night by Michael Arditti
The Friday Gospels by Jenn Ashworth
Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
Dodger by James Benmore
World of Dust by Joel Biroco
Dividing Lines by Neil Blower
A Little Bit of Madness by Sheryl Browne
Learning To Love by Sheryl Browne
Breath of Africa by JL Bwye
Idiopathy by Sam Byers
This Is Where I Am by Karen Campbell
The Vorrh by Brian Catling
Byron Easy by Jude Cook
This is the Way by Gavin Corbett
The Secret Knowledge by Andrew Crumey
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
Killing Daniel by Sarah Dobbs
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald
Myopia by Jeff Gardiner
Ostrich by Matt Greene
The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood
The Humans by Matt Haig
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes
The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub by DD Johnston
The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce
The Drive by Tyler Keevil
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Night Rainbow by Claire King
A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz
Bass Instinct by Will Macmillan Jones
Angel Exterminatus by Graham McNeill
The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed
The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
The Trade Secret by Robert Newman
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon by Simon Okotie
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
An Accidental King by Mark Patton
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
The Rice Paper Diaries by Francesca Rhydderch
The Human Script by Johnny Rich
Cooking With Bones by Jess Richards
Call It Dog by Marli Roode
The Killing Pool by Kevin Sampson
King of the Jungle by KS Silkwood
An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful by J David Simons
The Drowning of Arthur Braxton by Caroline Smailes
The Machine by James Smythe
The Visitor by Katherine Stansfield
Homecoming by Susie Steiner
Entertaining Strangers by Jonathan Taylor
The Beautiful Child by Emma Tennant
Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux
Burnt Island by Alice Thompson
The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
Your Brother's Blood by David Towsey
Goodbye Henrietta Street by Lin Treadgold
The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait
She Rises by Kate Worsley
How Not to Murder Your Grumpy by Carol E Wyer
Just Add Spice by Carol E Wyer
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
2012
Winner
Tales from the Mall by Ewan Morrison
 
Shortlist
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger
Paint This Town Red by AJ Kirby
Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May
Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers
The Revelations by Alex Preston
The Casablanca Case by Simon Swift
 
Longlist
Everything's Fine by Socrates Adams
A Trick I Learned From Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge
Breakfast at Midnight by Louis Armand
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
The Yips by Nicola Barker
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
So It Is by Liam Murray Bell
Hinterland by Caroline Brothers
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
Empire State by Adam Christopher
Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan
Ratmen by Steve Ely
If This is Home by Stuart Evers
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
The Coward's Tale by Vanessa Gebbie
Malice in Blunderland by Jonny Gibbings
The White Lie by Andrea Gillies
Empty Space by M John Harrison
Captivity by Lander Hawes
In the Orchard, the Swallows by Peter Hobbs
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson
Dogma by Lars Iyer
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
When Nights Were Cold by Susanna Jones
Sea Hearts / The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Capital by John Lanchester
Alys, Always by Harriet Lane
Central Reservation by Will Le Fleming
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon
Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord
The Incident by Kenneth Macleod
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Rare Earth by Paul Mason
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
The Quiddity of Will Self by Samantha Mills
Pure by Timothy Mo
A Soldier's Farewell by Alan Monaghan
Dark Room by Steve Mosby
The Truth by Michael Palin
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
Dead Men by Richard Pierce
The City's Son by Tom Pollock
The Heat of the Sun by David Rain
Signs of Life by Anna Raverat
This Is Life by Dan Rhodes
Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway
Opposed Positions by Gwendoline Riley
Jack Glass by Adam Roberts
My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
The Most Beautiful Thing by Fiona Robyn
One of Us by Iain Rowan
NW by Zadie Smith
The Testimony by James Smythe
Stealing Into Winter by Graeme K Talboys
The Story of My Assassins by Tarun Tejpal
Flight by Adam Thorpe
The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall by Paul Torday
Dead Man's Pedal by Alan Warner
The Passenger by Peter Wild
Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
Red Army Faction Blues by Ada Wilson
Elegy For Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
2011
Winner
King Crow by Michael Stewart
 
Shortlist
Sherry Cracker Gets Normal by DJ Connell
Jude in London (Old Street) by Julian Gough
Spurious by Lars Iyer
Fireball by Tyler Keevil
English Slacker by Chris Morton
 
Longlist
Jubilate by Michael Arditti
Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth
The Death of Eli Gold by David Baddiel
Chapman's Odyssey by Paul Bailey
Fallen Star by Ian Barker
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Lazarus is Dead by Richard Beard
The Afterparty by Leo Benedictus
Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson
Made in Britain by Gavin James Bower
How To Forget by Marius Brill
Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce
A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
Open City by Teju Cole
Exacerbyte by Cat Connor
Jump! by Jilly Cooper
Lucky Bunny by Jill Dawson
According to Luke by Rosanne Dingli
The Wordsmith's Tale by Stephen Edden
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
Verruca Music by Stuart Estell
On Loving Josiah by Olivia Fane
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
Honor's Shadow by Voula Grand
We Had It So Good by Linda Grant
The London Train by Tessa Hadley
Reality 36 by Guy Haley
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
The Office of Lost and Found by Vincent Holland-Keen
The Brothers' Lot by Kevin Holohan
The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock
The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
This Road is Red by Alison Irvine
The Dead Beat by Cody James
Everything I found on the Beach by Cynan Jones
The Slient Land by Graham Joyce
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
First Night by Gabriel J Klein
The Life by Malcolm Knox
Sharaf by Raj Kumar
A Lily of the Field by John Lawton
Scream if you Want to go Faster by Russ Litten
Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott
History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason
A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
Sons and Fascination by GS Mattu
The Concrete Grove by Gary McMahon
Embassytown by China Miéville
Snowdrops by AD Miller
Pure by Andrew Miller
Today by David Miller
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In by Magnus Mills
The Soldier's Return by Alan Monaghan
Black Flowers by Steve Mosby
Night Waking by Sarah Moss
Richard by Ben Myers
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Second Coming by John Niven
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
Long Lies the Shadow by Gerda Pearce
Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens by Jonathan Pinnock
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Vault: an anti-novel by David Rose
Regicide by Nicholas Royle
Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
The Coffee Story by Peter Salmon
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
There but for the… by Ali Smith
The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
The Boy in the Gap by Paul Soye
At Last by Edward St Aubyn
Spring by David Szalay
Thin Reflections by Graeme K Talboys
The Knife Drawer by Padrika Tarrant
Genus by Jonathan Trigell
Saturdays Are Gold by Pierre Van Rooyen
What I Did by Christopher Wakling
The English German Girl by Jake Wallis Simons
Girl Reading by Katie Ward
Bed by David Whitehouse
One Dead Hen by Charlie Williams
The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams
The Visiting Angel by Paul Wilson
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood
2010
Winners
Deloume Road by Matthew Hooton
The Canal by Lee Rourke
 
Shortlist
The Cuckoo Boy by Grant Gillespie
Advice for Strays by Justine Kilkerr
Pictures Of Lily by Matthew Yorke
 
Longlist
Triumff by Dan Abnett
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
Krakow Waltz by Kate Allan
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Hemispheres by Stephen Baker
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
Contact by Jonathan Buckley
Archie And The North Wind by Angus Peter Campbell
The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
The Gates by John Connolly
Galore by Michael Crummey
JEW by DO Dodd
Room by Emma Donoghue
Whatever you Love by Louise Doughty
Mr Bawman Wants to Tango by Mogue Doyle
The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
Ellipsis by Nikki Dudley
Shades Of Grey by Jasper Fforde
The Leaping by Tom Fletcher
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Faithful Place by Tana French
Zero History by William Gibson
The Evolutionary Void by Peter F Hamilton
Of Beasts And Beings by Ian Holding
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Da Happie Laand by Alan Jamieson
Truth Or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston
Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph
Mother Land by Dmetri Kakmi
The Waterproof Bible by Andrew Kaufman
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Wolfsangel by MD Lachlan
Any Human Face by Charles Lambert
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
King Death by Toby Litt
The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
And This is True by Emily Mackie
C by Tom McCarthy
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Wonders Of A Godless World by Andrew McGahan
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
Kraken: an anatomy by China Miéville
Kick Ass by Mark Millar illustrated by John Romita Jr
The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
February by Lisa Moore
The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison
A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
The Life And Times Of Maf The Dog And His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan
Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Sick City by Tony O'Neill
The Folding Knife by KJ Parker
Landed by Tim Pears
Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile
Lights Out In Wonderland by DBC Pierre
This Bleeding City by Alex Preston
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Gabriel's Angel by Mark A Radcliffe
The Misognyist by Piers Paul Read
Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes
And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson
Forgetting Zoë by Ray Robinson
Strange Magic by Gord Rollo
Children of the Sun by Max Schaefer
Like Bees To Honey by Caroline Smailes
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
American Devil by Oliver Stark
At the Chime of a City Clock by DJ Taylor
Truth by Peter Temple
Pocket Notebook by Mike Thomas
Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas
Mission Of Honor by David Weber
Bereft by Chris Womersley
Gerard Woodward by Gerard Woodward
Kissing Alice by Jacqueline Yallop
2009
Winner
Solo by Rana Dasgupta
 
Shortlist
A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
Neverland by Simon Crump
This is How by MJ Hyland
Tomas by James Palumbo
The Tin-Kin by Eleanor Thom
 
Longlist
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
Map Of The Invisible World by Tash Aw
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
Harare North by Brian Chikwava
Summertime by JM Coetzee
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
Grace, Lamar and Laszlo The Beautiful by Deborah Kay Davies
The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Rose by Gillian Green
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
Tender by Mark Illis
Spirit by Gwyneth Jones
The Father Of Locks by Andrew Killeen
Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
All the Colours of the Town by Liam McIlvanney
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
The City & the City by China Miéville
Ten Storey Love Song by Richard Milward
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
Jerusalem by Patrick Neate
Down On Out On Murder Mile by Tony O'Neill
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Little Gods by Anna Richards
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
Hodd by Adam Thorpe
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield