2024

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming

2023

Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah Hazard

2022

Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean by David Alston

2021

Duck Feet by Ely Percy

2017

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova

2016

The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie

2015

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

2014

The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment 1740-1820 by Bob Harris & Charles McKean

2013

Winner
Something Like Happy by John Burnside

​Shortlist
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Looking For Mrs Livingstone by Julie Davidson
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis
Mairi Dhall agus Sgeulachdan by Donnchadh Macgilliosa
The Professor Of Truth by James Robertson
Artful by Ali Smith

2012

Winner
​Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman
 
Shortlist
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie
Deanamh Gaire ris a’ Chloc (or Laughing at the Clock) by Aonghas MacNeacail
Tales from the Mall by Ewan Morrison
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner
Skagboys by Irvine Welsh

2011

A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray

2010

And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson

2009

The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography by Robert Crawford

2008

Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman

2007

Day by AL Kennedy

2006

A Lie About My Father by John Burnside

2005

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

2004

In Another Light by Andrew Greig

2003

Joseph Knight by James Robertson

2002

Clara by Janice Galloway

2001

Medea by Liz Lochhead

2000

Lantern Bearers: Novel by Ronald Frame

1999

Pursuits by George Bruce

1998

The Sopranos by Alan Warner

1997

Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty

1996

The Kiln by William McIlvanney

1995

Black Sea by Neal Ascherson

1994

Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown

1993

Robert Burns – A Biography by James A Mackay

1992

Collected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith

1991

Scottish Art 1460–1990 by Duncan Macmillan

1990

O Choille gu Bearradh / From Wood to Ridge by Sorley MacLean

1989

A Question of Loyalties by Allan Massie

1988

Games with Shadows by Neal Ascherson

The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy by Tom Nairn

1987

The Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark

1986

A Storm from Paradise by Stuart Hood

1985

Collected Poems by Norman MacCaig

1984

God and the Poets: The Gifford Lectures by David Daiches
Intimate Voices: Selected Works by Tom Leonard

1983

Poems of Thirty Years by Edwin Morgan
Collected Poems by Derick Thomson

1982

Lanark by Alasdair Gray

1958

Scotland Before History by Stuart Piggott

1956

One Foot in Eden by Edwin Muir

1939

Three Plays by Robert McLellan

1937

The Lord Bothwell by Robert Gore-Browne
Highland River by Neil M Gunn

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