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2021
Winner
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

Shortlist
The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Longlist
Hinton by Mark Blacklock
The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd
Mr. Beethoven by Paul Griffiths
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A Treacherous Country by KM Kruimink
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
2020
Winner
The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey

Shortlist
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek
Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor
The Redeemed by Tim Pears
A Sin of Omission by Marguerite Poland

Longlist
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
This is Happiness by Niall Williams
The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood
2019
Winner
The Long Take by Robin Robertson​

Shortlist
A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
After The Party by Cressida Connolly
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

Longlist
Little by Edward Carey
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Dark Water by Elizabeth Lowry
The Wanderers by Tim Pears
All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
Tombland by CJ Sansom
 
Academy Recommends
Love Is Blind by William Boyd
The Prince Of Mirrors by Alan Robert Clark
The Making Of Martin Sparrow by Peter Cochrane
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières
All Among The Barley by Melissa Harrison
The Hundred Wells Of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah
Only Killers And Thieves by Paul Howarth
Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly
The Black Earth by Philip Kazan
A Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
Mad Blood Stirring by Simon Mayo
As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
The Angel’s Mark by SW Perry
A View Of The Empire At Sunset by Caryl Phillips
Painter To The King by Amy Sackville
A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott
The Tristan Chord by Glenn Skwerer
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
The Madonna Of The Mountains by Elise Valmorbida​
2018
Winner
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
 
Shortlist
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Sugar Money by Jane Harris
Grace by Paul Lynch
Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik
The Wardrobe Mistress by Patrick McGrath
 
Longlist
The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
The Last Man In Europe by Dennis Glover
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
The Draughtsman by Robert Lautner
The Horseman by Tim Pears
​The Bedlam Sticks by Natasha Pulley
 
Academy Recommends
The Death of the Fronsac by Neal Ascherson
Mrs. Osmond by John Banville
Softness of the Lime by Maxine Case
Larchfield by Polly Clark
He by John Connolly
Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons by Jocelyn Cullity
Goblin by Ever Dundas
The Water Beetles by Michael Kaan
The Iron Age by Arja Kajermo
My Beautiful Imperial by Rhiannon Lewis
Soot by Andrew Martin
Story Land by Catherine McKinnon
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Speakeasy by Alisa Smith
A Reckoning by Linda Spalding
The Secret Books by Marcel Theroux
The Esquimaux by Tom Tivnan
City of Crows by Chris Womersley
The Photographer by Meike Ziervogel
2017
Winner
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
 
Shortlist
A Country Road by Jo Baker
The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
The Good People by Hannah Kent
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
 
Longlist
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Crane Pond by Richard Francis
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
 
Academy Recommends
Orphans of the Carnival by Carol Birch
The Strays by Emily Bitto
The Muse by Jessie Burton
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Let Me Tell you About a Man I Knew by Susan Fletcher
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
The Scattering by Lauri Kubuitsile
The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake
The North Water by Ian McGuire
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
Conspiracy by SJ Parris
By Gaslight by Steven Price
A Coin for the Hangman by Ralph Spurrier
The Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor
A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter
Resolution by AN Wilson
The Naturalist by Alissa York
Devotion by Louisa Young
2016
Winner
Tightrope by Simon Mawer
 
Shortlist
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
End Games in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
 
Longlist
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
A Petrol Scented Spring by Ajay Close
Dictator by Robert Harris
Devastation Road by Jason Hewitt
Death and Mr Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis
Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss
Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn
2015
Winner
The Ten Thousand Things by John Spurling
 
Shortlist
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
The Lie by Helen Dunmore
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
In the Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
 
Longlist
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud
Wake by Anna Hope
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
2014
Winner
An Officer and A Spy by Robert Harris
 
Shortlist
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Harvest by Jim Crace
Fair Helen by Andrew Greig
The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
2013
Winner
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
 
Shortlist
Toby’s Room by Pat Barker
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Streets by Anthony Quinn
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
2012
Winner
On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
 
Shortlist
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Pure by Andrew Miller
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
2011
Winner
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
 
Shortlist
C by Tom McCarthy
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor
Heartstone by CJ Sansom
To Kill A Tsar by Andrew Williams
2010
Winner
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
 
Shortlist
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
Lustrum by Robert Harris
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Hodd by Adam Thorpe