2024

Winner
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Shortlist
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

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2023

Winner
The New Life by Tom Crewe

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My Name Is Yip by Paddy Crewe
The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson

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2022

Winner
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
 
Shortlist
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

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2021

Winner
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
 
Shortlist
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

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2020

Winner
Girl by Edna O'Brien
 
Shortlist
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons by Laura Cumming

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2019

Winner
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
 
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Kudos by Rachel Cusk
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman

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2018

Winner
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
 
Shortlist
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman illustrated by Chris Wormell
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

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2017

Winner
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
 
Shortlist
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar
Swing Time by Zadie Smith

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2016

Winner
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
 
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The Past by Tessa Hadley
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall

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2015

Winner
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
 
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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Us by David Nicholls

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2014

Winner
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
 
Shortlist
The Kills by Richard House
Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera

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2013

Winner
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
 
Shortlist
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson
Umbrella by Will Self

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2012

Winner
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
 
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Pure by Andrew Miller

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2011

Winner
What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam
 
Shortlist
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Sex and Stravinsky by Barbara Trapido

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2010

Winner
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds

2009

Winner
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant

2008

Winner
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

2007

Winner
Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn

2006

Winner
Memoir by John McGahern

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2005

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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

2004

Winner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

2003

Winner
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

2002

Winner
Atonement by Ian McEwan

2001

Winner
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

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2000

Winner
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

1999

Winner
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

1997

Winner
Reading In the Dark by Seamus Deane

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