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2024

Anamnesis by Iona Lee
Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean by Katherine Pangonis
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson

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2023

None of the Above by Travis Alabanza
To Fill a Yellow House by Sussie Anie
Birdgirl by Mya-Rose Craig
Imperium by Jay Gao
We Move by Gurnaik Johal
An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie

2022

Winners
Keeping the House by Tice Cin
Overrun by Wild Boars by Maia Elsner
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia

2021

Winners
The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong
Dark, Salt, Clear by Lamorna Ash
Ripe by Isabelle Baafi
The Storm by Akeem Balogun

2020

Winners
Unicorn by Amrou Al-Kadhi
The Art of the Body by Alex Allison
Michael Tippett: The Biography by Oliver Soden
Moder Dy by Roseanne Watt

2019

Winners
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power
Mrs Gaskell and Me by Nell Stevens

Shortlist
The Golden Thread by Kassia St Clair
The Crossway by Guy Stagg

2018

Winners
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
All the Prayers in the House by Miriam Nash

Shortlist
Fortune Cookie by Jenna Clake
The Unrivalled Transcendence of Willem J. Gyle by JD Dixon

2017

The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes

2016

An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It by Jessie Greengrass
Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance by Daisy Hay
Physical by Andrew McMillan
We Don't Know What We're Doing by Thomas Morris
Happiness by Jack Underwood

2015

How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne by Jonathan Beckman
Black Country by Liz Berry
Lolito by Ben Brooks
Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger

2014

Hunters in the Snow by Daisy Hildyard
The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed
Orkney by Amy Sackville

2013

The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
The Glass Delusion by Abi Curtis
The Adult by Joe Stretch
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood

2011

The Squirrels Are Dead by Miriam Gamble
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
In the Flesh by Adam O'Riordan

2010

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Talk of the Town by Jacob Polley
What Price Liberty? by Ben Wilson

2009

Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography by Rodge Glass
The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings
The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money by Thomas Leveritt
Once Upon a Time in England by Helen Walsh

2008

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
On Purpose by Nick Laird
Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley
Miss Herbert by Adam Thirlwell

2007

Running to the Hills by Horatio Clare
The Amnesia Clinic by James Scudamore

2006

Incendiary by Chris Cleave
Skirrid Hill by Owen Sheers
On Beauty by Zadie Smith

2005

Passing Under Heaven by Justin Hill
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell

2004

Two Kinds of Silence by Mark Blayney
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane
Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson

2003

The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor

2002

Black Earth City by Charlotte Hobson
The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase by Marcel Theroux

2001

Leadville by Edward Platt
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice

2000

The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
Affinity by Sarah Waters

1999

Once In a House On Fire by Andrea Ashworth
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you by Paul Farley
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Bring Home the Revolution by Jonathan Freedland

1998

The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own by Jonathan Rendall
Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale
Angry White Pyjamas by Robert Twigger

1997

The Testimony of Taliesin Jones by Rhidian Brook
Slattern by Kate Clanchy
Kitchen Venom by Philip Hensher
I May Be Some Time by Francis Spufford

1996

Truffle Beds by Katherine Pierpoint
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

1995

Younghusband by Patrick French
The End of Innocence by Simon Garfield
The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie
The Dogs by Laura Thompson

1994

Other Lovers by Jackie Kay
Looking for the Possible Dance by AL Kennedy
Crossing Place by Philip Marsden

1993

Jella by Dea Birkett
Out of the Rain by Glyn Maxwell
Bucket of Tongues by Duncan McLean

1992

But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer
Lempriere’s Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk
Householder by Gerard Woodward

1991

The Other Occupant by Peter Benson
Honour Thy Father by Lesley Glaister
Four Bare Legs in a Bed by Helen Simpson

1990

Our Grandmother’s Drums by Mark Hudson
The Automatic Man by Sam North
The Vision of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare

1989

Romantic Affinities by Rupert Christiansen
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
The Birds of the Innocent Wood by Deirdre Madden

1988

The Land That Lost Its Heroes by Jimmy Burns
Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy
Whore Banquets by Matthew Kneale

1987

The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory
Isaac Campion by Janni Howker
The Lamberts by Andrew Motion

1986

Family, Myths and Legends by Patricia Ferguson
Frontiers by Adam Nicolson
Tongues of Flames by Tim Parks

1985

Dark Glasses by Blake Morrison
By the Fisheries by Jeremy Reed
Her Living Image by Jane Rogers

1984

The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity by Timothy Garton Ash
The Indoor Park by Sean O'Brien

1983

Keepers of the House by Lisa St Aubin de Terán

1982

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
Lantern Lecture by Adam Mars-Jones

1981

Metroland by Julian Barnes
Hearts of Gold by Clive Sinclair
The Healing Art by AN Wilson

1980

The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
Arcadia by Christopher Reid

1979

Jack & Jill by Helen Hodgman
Daughter of Jerusalem by Sara Maitland

1978

A State of Justice by Tom Paulin
My Life Closed Twice by Nigel Williams

1977

Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes

1976

The Dead of Winter by Dominic Cooper
First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan

1974

The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis

1973

Play Things by Peter Prince
A Season in Abyssinia by Paul Strathern
Prudence Dictates by Jonathan Street

1972

Terry Street by Douglas Dunn
Fly Away Home by Gillian Tindall

1971

The Knight and Chivalry by Richard Barber
Tussy Is Me by Michael Hastings
I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill

1970

A Sweet, Sweet Summer by Jane Gaskell
Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read

1969

Several Perceptions by Angela Carter

1968

At The Jerusalem by Paul Bailey
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

1967

Trawl by BS Johnson
The Better Half by Andrew Sinclair

1966

The Tin Men by Michael Frayn
The White Father by Julian Mitchell

1965

Negatives by Peter Everett

1964

Time of Arrival by Dan Jacobson
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

1963

Flight into Camden by David Storey

1962

The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas

1961

Miguel Street by VS Naipaul

1960

The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes

1959

The Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn

1958

Preliminary Essays by John Wain

1957

In the Castle of my Skin by George Lamming

1956

A Way of Looking by Elizabeth Jennings

1955

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

1954

Five Short Novels by Doris Lessing

1953

Hear and Forgive by Emyr Humphreys

1952

The Dividing Stream by Francis King

1951

Scamp by Roland Camberton

1950

Tomato Cain & Other Stories by Nigel Kneale

1949

Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica by Hamish Henderson

1948

Journey to the Interior by PH Newby

1947

Innocents by AL Barker

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