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Ondaatje Prize

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Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman

Shortlist
Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
No Man’s Land by David Nash

Longlist
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Local Interest by Emily Hasler
Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester
In Search of Berlin by John Kampfner
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
Two Lights: Walking Through Landscapes of Loss and Life by James Roberts
Elowen by William Henry Searle
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Heritage Aesthetics by Anthony Anaxagorou

Shortlist
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

Longlist
All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt
The Half-life of Snails by Philippa Holloway
The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey
A Sin of Omission by Marguerite Poland
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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

Shortlist
The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
Writing the Camp by Yousif M Qasmiyeh
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

Longlist
Class of ‘37 by Hester Barron & Claire Langhamer
Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
Careless by Kirsty Capes
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
The Roles We Play by Sabba Khan
Corrigenda for Costafine Town by Jake Morris-Campbell
The Whistling by Rebecca Netley
Surviving Katyn: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth by Jane Rogoyska
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
Iberia by Julian Sayarer
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia
C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor
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Winner
The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan

Shortlist
This Lovely City by Louise Hare
Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Minya Powles
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
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Longlist
Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
Out of Thin Air by Michael Crawley
The Beauty and the Terror by Catherine Fletcher
Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen
Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O'Donoghue
Unofficial Britain by Gareth E Rees
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
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Winner
A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson

Shortlist
​​Surge by Jay Bernard
Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi
Underland by Robert Macfarlane
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
A Small Silence by Jumoke Verissimo
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Longlist
When the Tree Falls by Jane Clarke
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons by Laura Cumming
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
The Summer Isles by Philip Marsden
Nia by Robert Minhinnick
The Inside City  by Anita Mir
Lanny by Max Porter
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman
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Winner
The Wife’s Tale by Aida Edemariam

Shortlist
No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
The Crossway by Guy Stagg
Kings of the Yukon by Adam Weymouth

Longlist
Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers
Little by Edward Carey
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
Where the road runs out by Gaia Holmes
The Café de Move-on Blues by Christopher Hope
A Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma
Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly
Arkady by Patrick Langley
A Line in the River by Jamal Mahjoub
Let Me Be Like Water by SK Perry
From A Low And Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka
The Valley at the Centre of Our World by Malachy Tallack
Wilding by Isabella Tree
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Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit

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The Epic City by Kushanava Choudhury
Once Upon a Time in the East by Xiaolu Guo
Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Border by Kapka Kassabova
Elmet by Fiona Mozley​
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Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

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The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
In a Land of Paper Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie
Augustown by Kei Miller
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
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Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
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Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood by Justin Marozzi
This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
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The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica by Ian Thomson
Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
The People’s Act of Love by James Meek
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The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
Hearing Birds Fly by Louisa Waugh

Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
No Bones by Anna Burns
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Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Traplines by Eden Robinson
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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Archangel by Paul Watkins
Signals of Distress by Jim Crace
The Lights Below by Carl MacDougall
Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
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Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
Fludd by Hilary Mantel
The Blindfold Horse by Shusha Guppy
The Bridge by Maggie Hemingway
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A Nation of Fools by Balraj Khanna
Waterland by Graham Swift
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Breed of Heroes by Alan Judd
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Poppie by Elsa Joubert
The Stone Arrow by Richard Herley
Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai
Victims by Eugene McCabe
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Black Faces, White Faces by Jane Gardam
The Pandora Valley by Graham King
Articles of Faith by Ronald Harwood
I Didn't Know You Cared by Peter Tinniswood
Last Cool Days by John Stewart
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Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
The Humming-Bird Tree by Ian McDonald
The Round Tower by Catherine Cookson
The Big Meeting by David Bean
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