Shortlist Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie Pieces of Me by Natalie Hart She Lies in Wait by Gytha Lodge Longlist The Burning Land by George Aligiah A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston Attend by West Camel The Binding by Bridget Collins Poster Boy by NJ Crosskey The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox by Claire Gradidge When All Is Said by Anne Griffin Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Ellie and the Harp Maker by Hazel Prior Something to Live For by Richard Roper Blood for Blood by Victoria Selman Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson Blackberry and Wild Rose by Sonia Velton The Truants by Kate Weinberg
Nominations Golden Child by Claire Adam Saltwater by Jessica Andrews Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins Our Child of the Stars by Stephen Cox Nobber by Oisin Fagan Wolf Country by Tunde Farrand Thursday Nights at the Bluebell Inn by Kit Fielding Our Lady of Everything by Susan Finlay The Therapist by Nial Giacomelli Kill by Anthony Good Thin Air by Lisa Gray My Name is Monster by Katie Hale The Familiars by Stacey Halls The Parisian by Isabella Hammad Bindlestiff by Wayne Holloway Dead Inside by Noelle Holten The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby The Last Words of Madeleine Anderson by Helen Kitson We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet Call Him Mine by Tim MacGabhann Silence Under a Stone by Norma MacMaster The Rapture by Claire McGlasson A Love Story for Bewildered Girls by Emma Morgan Black Car Burning by Helen Mort Train Man by Andrew Mulligan As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray The Flat Share by Beth O'Leary M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly The Death of Baseball by Orlando Ortega-Medina The Most Difficult Thing by Charlotte Philby What Red Was by Rosie Price A Letter from Sarah by Dan Proops Music Love Drugs War by Geraldine Quigley Asghar and Zahra by Sameer Rahim The Girl Before You by Nicola Rayner Perfect Liars by Rebecca Reid Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin The First Time Lauren Pailing Died by Alyson Rudd Mothlight by Adam Scovell Doggerland by Ben Smith Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri Absolutely Smashing It by Kathryn Wallace To The Lions by Holly Watt Finer Things by David Wharton Supper Club by Lara Williams
2018/2019 Winner White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
Shortlist Call of the Curlew by Elizabeth Brooks Bitter by Francesca Jakobi Killer Intent by Tony Kent A Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
Longlist All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew Home by Amanda Berriman I Love You Too Much by Alicia Drake The French Girl by Lexie Elliott The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar The Cactus by Sarah Haywood Sal by Mick Kitson If I Die Before I Wake by Emily Koch Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn An Unremarkable Body by Elisa Lodato Entanglement by Katy Mahood The Queen of Bloody Everything by Joanna Nadin The Lido by Libby Page Yes by Anne Patterson Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor The Very White of Love by SC Worrall
Nominations The Reinvention of Martha Ross by Charlene Allcott Swansong by Kerry Andrew The Word For Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews Ironopolis by Glen James Brown The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin A Brush with Death by Ali Carter Every Thing About You by Heather Child The Tyranny of Lost Things by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Falling Short by Lex Coulton The Illumination of Ursula Flight by Anna-Marie Crowhurst Water and Glass by Abi Curtis West by Carys Davies Dark Pines by Will Dean The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow by Danny Denton Hold by Michael Donkor The Chicken Soup Murder by Maria Donovan Magnetism by Ruth Figgest The Charmed Life of Alex Moore by Molly Flatt Folk by Zoe Gilbert Peach by Emma Glass Sight by Jessie Greengrass The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall The Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton Seven Days Of Us by Francesca Hornak Orchid and the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes The Adults by Caroline Hulse Everything Under by Daisy Johnson The Exphoria Code by Antony Johnston Never Greener by Ruth Jones The Other Woman by Sandie Jones Before Her Eyes by Jack Jordan May by Naomi Kruger The Test by Nathan Leamon Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley The Innocent Wife by Amy Lloyd Murmuration by Robert Lock Disbanded Kingdom by Polis Loizou Killing It by Asia Mackay The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh Sweet William by Iain Maitland Future Popes of Ireland by Darragh Martin Promising Young Women by Caroline O'Donoghue Now Legwarmers by Pascal O'Loughlin Wrecker by Noel O'Reilly Bloody January by Alan Parks The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana We Begin Our Ascent by Joe Mungo Reed The House on Half Moon Street by Alex Reeve My Name is Nobody by Matthew Richardson Things Bright and Beautiful by Anbara Salam The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Break.Up by Joanna Walsh Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar by Olga Wojtas
2017/2018 Winner Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Shortlist Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary Not Thomas by Sara Gethin The Pinocchio Brief by Abi Silver A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart Longlist Dark Water by Sara Bailey The Pictures by Guy Bolton Larchfield by Polly Clark Ragdoll by Daniel Cole These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper The Single Soldier by George Costigan The Hopkins Conundrum by Simon Edge If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar The Mayfly by James Hazel The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan The Haunting of Henry Twist by Rebecca F John Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik Clementine and Claudia by Piper Milton Elmet by Fiona Mozley Holding by Graham Norton Widdershins by Helen Steadman Making Space by Sarah Tierney The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown
Nominations The Favourite by SV Berlin Living the Dream by Lauren Berry Towards Mellbreak by Marie-Elsa Bragg The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks A Mighty Dawn by Theodore Brun Ideal Love by Alice Burnett How to be Human by Paula Cocozza What Alice Knew by TA Cotterell Rattle by Fiona Cummins The Handsworth Times by Sharon Duggal The Shifting Pools by Zoe Duncan The Companion by Sarah Dunnakey Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson, All The Good Things by Clare Fisher Little Deaths by Emma Flint Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear Darke by Rick Gekoski Rockadoon Shore by Rory Gleeson Splash by Stephen Glover Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris The First Day by Phil Harrison Two O'Clock Boy by Mark Hill Radio Sunrise by Anietie Isong English Animals by Laura Kaye The Transition by Luke Kennard Hold Back the Stars by Katie Khan Himself by Jess Kidd The Choice by Samantha King Purged by Peter Laws The House with Old Furniture by Helen Lewis Lies by TM Logan You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood Swimming with Fishes by Rasheda Malcolm How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus The One by John Marrs The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr by Frances Maynard Electric Souk by Rose McGinty The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne Little Gold by Allie Rogers Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Fallow by Daniel Shand The Things We Thought We Knew by Mahsuda Snaith Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic The Esquimaux by Tom Tivnan A Thousand Paper Birds by Tor Udall Hot Mess by Lucy Vine Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker November by Christopher Woodall
2016/2017 Winner Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker Shortlist Crisis by Frank Gardner The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd Belonging by Umi Sinha The People We Were Before by Annabelle Thorpe Longlist The Joyce Girl by Annabel Abbs The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon Gone Astray by Michelle Davies My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal When the Sky Fell Apart by Caroline Lea Shtum by Jem Lester Valentina by SE Lynes Knowing Anna by Sarah Meyrick A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee Alberto's Lost Birthday by Diana Rosie The Truth about Julia by Anna Schaffner The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle A Coin for the Hangman by Ralph Spurrier The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker Blind by Cath Weeks Nominations Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume Sockpuppet by Matthew Blakstad Without Trace by Simon Booker Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan Death at Whitewater Church by Andrea Carter The Death of Mr Punch by Jonathan Carter What Will Remain by Dan Clements River of Ink by Paul MM Cooper The Confession of Stella Moon by Shelley Day This Secret We're Keeping by Rebecca Done Look at Me by Sarah Duguid Miss You by Kate Eberlen The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis What a Way to Go by Julia Forster Devil Take the Hindmost by Martin Cathcart Froden A Ghost's Story by Lorna Gibb We Go Around in the Night Consumed By Fire by Jules Grant The Gunner Girl by Clare Harvey Birthright by David Hingley Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard The Ornatrix by Kate Howard Timed Out by Barbara Lorna Hudson The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes The Vegetarian Tigers of Paradise by Crystal Jeans A Fine House in Trinity by Lesley Kelly Nina Is Not OK by Shappi Khorsandi Rebound by Aga Lesiewicz Bodies of Water by VH Leslie The Speaker's Wife by Quentin Letts Ghostbird by Carol Lovekin Armadillos by PK Lynch Sofia Khan is not Obliged by Ayisha Malik The Many by Wyl Menmuir Beside Myself by Ann Morgan Fade to Black by Steve Mullins Villa Eilenroc by Jeremy Noble Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter The Unforgotten by Laura Powell Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce Akram's War by Nadim Safdar They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick Truestory by Catherine Simpson Owl Song at Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter The Second Love of My Life by Victoria Walters Rawblood by Catriona Ward Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg
2015/2016 Winner The Death's Head Chess Club by John Donoghue Shortlist Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh Burnt Paper Sky by Gilly Macmillan The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild Longlist Precocious by Joanna Barnard Ridley Road by Jo Bloom Glass by Alex Christofi Academy Street by Mary Costello The Sisters by Claire Douglas The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller The Artificial Anatomy of Parks by Kat Gordon The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer Miss Carter's War by Sheila Hancock Jakob's Colours by Lindsay Hawdon The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley The Two of Us by Andy Jones You, Me and Other People by Fionnuala Kearney Disclaimer by Renée Knight Someone Else's Conflict by Alison Layland The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan Post Mortem by Kate London Head of State by Andrew Marr Hush by Sara Marshall-Ball The Good Son by Paul McVeigh The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley Thornfield Hall by Jane Stubbs In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward The Life of a Banana by PP Wong Nominations Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock The Last Treasure Hunt by Jane Alexander Love, Sex and other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong The Insect Rosary by Sarah Armstrong The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett Galina Petrovna's Three Legged Dog Story by Andrea Bennett I'm Jack by Mark Blacklock Tracer by Rob Boffard Real Monsters by Liam Brown The Longest Fight by Emily Bullock The Defence by Steve Cavanagh The Well by Catherine Chanter The Honours by Tim Clare The Catalyst by Helena Coggan Nothing But Grass by Will Cohu Pillow Man by Nick Coleman How You See Me by SE Craythorne Rembrandt's Mirror by Kim Devereux Toxic by Jamie Doward The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister Sugar and Snails by Anne Goodwin The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins The Daughter's Secret by Eva Holland Black Wood by SJI Holliday The Ship by Antonia Honeywell My Life and the Beautiful Music by Jon Hotten In My House by Alex Hourston Not Quite Nice by Celia Imrie Death and Mr Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock The Art of Waiting by Christopher Jory Things We Have In Common by Tasha Kavanagh Esperanza Street by Niyati Keni The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan Tenacity by JS Law The Last Honey Trap by Louise Lee Left of the Bang by Claire Lowdon The Letters of Ivor Punch by Colin Macintyre Rickshaw by David McGrath Generation by Paula McGrath The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney The Square by Rosie Millard Bitter Sixteen by Stefan Mohamed The Zoo by Jamie Mollart The Beginning of the End by Ian Parkinson The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester Alice and the Fly by James Rice What She Left by TR Richmond Paris Kiss by Maggie Ritchie The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester Lie of the Land by Michael F Russell Lullaby Girl by Aly Sidgwick Plague Land by SD Sykes Ordinary Joe by Jon Teckman The Cunning House by Richard Marggraf Turley The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth The Fat of Fed Beasts by Guy Ware The Liar's Chair by Rebecca Whitney Weathering by Lucy Wood
2014/2015 Winner If I Should Die by Matthew Frank Shortlist A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray Wake by Anna Hope Daughter by Jane Shemilt After Before by Jemma Wayne Longlist The Ruby Slippers by Keir Alexander The Missing One by Lucy Atkins The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton Call of the Undertow by Linda Cracknell The Killing Season by Mason Cross Can Anybody help Me? by Sinéad Crowley Insh'Allah by Alys Einion The Dress Thief by Natalie Meg Evans The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson Ghost Moth by Michèle Forbes Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey The Separation by Dinah Jefferies The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau by Graeme Macrae Burnet The Undertaking by Audrey Magee Bhalla Strand by Sarah Maine White Crocodile by KT Medina The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer Acts of Omission by Terry Stiastny The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark The Death of the Poet by N Quentin Woolf Nominations Pig's Foot by Carlos Acosta The Secrets of Life and Death by Rebecca Alexander A Scattering of Orphans by Thomas Alexander My Biggest Lie by Luke Brown The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin The Crimson Ribbon by Katherine Clements Campari for Breakfast by Sara Crowe The Living by Léan Cullinan Long Way Home by Eva Dolan Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre Writers' Block by Judith Flanders The Reluctant Cannibals by Ian Flitcroft We Used to be Kings by Stewart Foster The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman White Lies by Jo Gatford Randall by Jonathan Gibbs The Distance by Helen Giltrow Barbarians by Tim Glencross Sedition by Katharine Grant Ostrich by Matt Greene In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes Love, Love Me Do by Mark Haysom Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary For Once in My Life by Marianne Kavanagh What Ends by Andrew Ladd The Massacre of Innocents by Alan Lawrence Don't Stand So Close by Luana Lewis What Milo Saw by Virginia Macgregor Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh When We Were Sisters by Beth Miller How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran The Quick by Lauren Owen The Bees by Laline Paull After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger The Last Kings of Sark by Rosa Rankin-Gee Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera Treason's Daughter by Antonia Senior The Glasgow Coma Scale by Neil DA Stewart Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe The Visitors by Simon Sylvester Charm Offensive by William Thacker East of Innocence by David Thorne Martin Harbottle's Appreciation of Time by Dominic Utton Alarm Girl by Hannah Vincent Before the Fall by Juliet West Chop Chop by Simon Wroe
2013/2014 Winner The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence Shortlist Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer What the River Washed Away by Muriel M Macleod The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion Longlist A Map of Nowhere by Martin Bannister The Flower Plantation by Nora Anne Brown How to be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman Jellybird by Lezanne Clannachan The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks Never Forget by Lisa Cutts The Things We Never Said by Susan Elliot Wright Chaplin and Company by Mave Fellowes Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland Nothing is Heavy by Vicki Jarrett The Night Rainbow by Claire King The Last King of Lydia by Tim Leach Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach Natural Causes by James Oswald Reviver by Seth Patrick The City Of Shadows by Michael Russell The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan The Twins by Saskia Sarginson The Mouseproof Kitchen by Saira Shah A Song from Dead Lips by William Shaw City of Blood by MD Villiers What Lies Within by Tom Vowler The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston She Rises by Kate Worsley Nominations The Beauty of Murder by AK Benedict Veronica Britton: Chronic Detective by NP Boyce City of Devils by Diana Bretherick A is for Angelica by Iain Broome Ten Things I've Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler Breath of Africa by JL Bwye Idiopathy by Sam Byers The Bone Dragon by Alexia Casale An Englishwoman in New York by Anne-Marie Casey Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy The Scarlet Thief by Paul Fraser Collard The Gamal by Ciaran Collins Byron Easy by Jude Cook The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton In Too Deep by Bea Davenport Going Back by Rachael English The House of Journalists by Tim Finch Eloise by Judy Finnigan Billy and Me by Giovanna Fletcher War Paint by Alicia Foster Seoul Survivors by Naomi Foyle Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi Lacey's House by Joanne Graham Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders by Kate Griffin Clay by Melissa Harrison A Capital Union by Victoria Hendry The Almost Lizard by James Higgerson Hunters in the Snow by Daisy Hildyard Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman The Hive by Gill Hornby The Emergence of Judy Taylor by Angela Jackson Snapper by Brian Kimberling The Specimen by Martha Lea The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz Where The Devil Can't Go by Anya Lipska Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay Some Day I'll Find You by Richard Madeley The Fields by Kevin Maher Intermission by Owen Martell Precious Things by Colette McBeth You Had Me at Hello by Mhairi McFarlane Habit by Stephen McGeagh The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon by Simon Okotie The Summer We All Ran Away by Cassandra Parkin The Second Life of Amy Archer by RS Pateman Amity and Sorrow by Peggy Riley Call It Dog by Marli Roode The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter Malarky by Anakana Schofield Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi Turn of the Tide by Margaret Skea The Story of Before by Susan Stairs Homecoming by Susie Steiner Theatre of the Gods by M Suddain Stretching It by Mandy Sutter Entertaining Strangers by Jonathan Taylor The Last Telegram by Liz Trenow Magificent Joe by James Wheatley Lost and Found by Tom Winter The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf The Girl Below by Bianca Zander Eddie The Kid by Leo Zeilig
2012/2013 Winner The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Shortlist Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt Rhumba by Elaine Proctor The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood The House on Paradise Street by Sofka Zinovieff Longlist So It Is by Liam Murray Bell The Harbour by Francesca Brill Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan Out of It by Selma Dabbagh A Small Fortune by Rosie Dastgir The Coward's Tale by Vanessa Gebbie The Book of Summers by Emylia Hall Jubilee by Shelley Harris The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals by Wendy Jones Alys, Always by Harriet Lane This is How it Ends by Kathleen MacMahon The Dark Winter by David Mark After The Lockout by Darran McCann The Other Half of Me by Morgan McCarthy Disappearing Home by Deborah Morgan Flesh and Blood by Mark Peterson Crossbones Yard by Kate Rhodes Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell The Innocents by Francesca Segal Ashenden by Elizabeth Wilhide Nominations The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer The Doll Princess by Tom Benn The Choir Mistress by Carol Bunyan Assignment of Death by Christine Conwell Sleeping Patterns by JR Crook Breathing on Glass by Jennifer Cryer Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott The Jacobites' Apprentice by David Ebsworth If This is Home by Stuart Evers The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan Absolution by Patrick Flanery The White Lie by Andrea Gillies Landfall by Helen Gordon Sleepwalkers by Tom Grieves Tideline by Penny Hancock The Murder Wall by Mari Hannah In Her Blood by Annie Hauxwell Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger Mountains of the Moon by IJ Kay Central Reservation by Will Le Fleming A Cold Season by Alison Littlewood The Incident by Kenneth Macleod Rare Earth by Paul Mason The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen The Fall by Claire McGowan The Banker's Daughter by Emran Mian The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell Park Lane by Frances Osborne Glass Geishas by Susanna Quinn Signs of Life by Anna Raverat Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid Snake Ropes by Jess Richards Seldom Seen by Sarah Ridgard The English Monster by Lloyd Shepherd Can We Still Be Friends by Alexandra Shulman Genie and Paul by Natasha Soobramanien Communion Town by Sam Thompson Advent by James Treadwell Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams
2011/2012 Winner Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson Shortlist A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson Sister by Rosamund Lupton Snowdrops by AD Miller Longlist Frozen Out by Quentin Bates The Apothecary's Daughter by Charlotte Betts What Women Want by Fanny Blake The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown Solomon's Song by Sarah De Carvalho The Somnambulist by Essie Fox The Trouble with Alice by Olivia Glazebrook The Hollow Man by Oliver Harris Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman White Heat by MJ McGrath Mice by Gordon Reece Invisibles by Ed Siegle Sanctus by Simon Toyne When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman Nominations City of Bohane by Kevin Barry Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce The Tenderloin by John Butler London Calling by James Craig Cuckoo by Julia Crouch 4 a.m. by Nina De La Mer The Generation Game by Sophie Duffy The Wordsmith's Tale by Stephen Edden That Summer in Ischia by Penny Feeny The Cure by Rachel Genn The Last Day of Term by Francis Gilbert Apostle Rising by Richard Godwin Postcards from the Heart by Ella Griffin Ophelia in Pieces by Clare Jacob The Guardian Angel's Journal by Carolyn Jess-Cooke Exiled by Shireen Jilla An Agent of Deceit by Chris Morgan Jones Smoke Portrait by Trilby Kent Dog Binary by Alex Macdonald The Intimates by Guy Mankowski Solace by Belinda McKeon Kiss Me Quick by Danny Miller Today by David Miller A Book for All and None by Clare Morgan English Slacker by Chris Morton The Harlot's Press by Helen Pike A Surrey State of Affairs by Ceri Radford Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota The Coffee Story by Peter Salmon The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville Pub Walks in Underhill Country by Nat Segnit Generation F by Winston Smith L'Auberge by Julia Stagg Flick by Abigail Tarttelin RSVP by Helen Warner The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood We All Ran Into The Sunlight by Natalie Young
2010/2011 Winner Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Shortlist Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller Luke and Jon by Robert Williams Longlist The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott Before the Earthquake by Maria Allen Making Shore by Sara Allerton Glasshopper by Isabel Ashdown The Missing by Jane Casey The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi Sacred Treason by James Forrester My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly The Soldier's Song by Alan Monaghan The Master of Bruges by Terence Morgan The Search by Maureen Myant The Holy Thief by William Ryan Beauty by Raphael Selbourne Dry Season by Dan Smith Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons American Devil by Oliver Stark The Legacy by Katherine Webb Nominations Indeterminate Creatures by Alan Apperley Pattern of Shadows by Judith Barrow Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman Playground by Samuel Bonner The Noise of Strangers by Robert Dickinson The Sun Sharer by Jack George Edmunson Walking in Pimlico by Ann Featherstone The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald Farundell by LR Fredericks The Road to the Sea by Ciara Hegarty Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller The Clay Dreaming by Ed Hillyer The House with Blue Shutters by Lisa Hilton Daughters of Fortune by Tara Hyland Micka by Frances Kay London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp Advice for Strays by Justine Kilkerr Rupture by Simon Lelic A Vision of Loveliness by Louise Levene Vintage by Maxine Linnell And This is True by Emily Mackie The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Salt Blue by Gillian Morgan Foreign Bodies by Candy Neubert Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile Bad Day in Black Rock by Kevin Power This Bleeding City by Alex Preston Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson Grass Stains by Kirsty Robinson Quilt by Nicholas Royle Foolish Lessons in Life and Love by Penny Rudge Cinema Blue by Sue Rulliere The Still Point by Amy Sackville Murder at Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin The Great Lie by M Stanford-Smith The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift The Temple Goers by Aatish Taseer Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace The Whole Wide Beauty by Emily Woof Kissing Alice by Jacqueline Yallop
2009/2010 Winner The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew Sharp Shortlist Girl In A Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold The Coroner by MR Hall The Street Philosopher by Matthew Plampin The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn Longlist The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry The Book of Shadows by Paula Brackston All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale Days of Grace by Catherine Hall An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum by Bronia Kita The Blue Notebook by James A Levine Cold Earth by Sarah Moss The Opposite Bastard by Simon Packham Shame on You by Clara Salaman The J-Word by Andrew Sanger The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw Black Rock by Amanda Smyth The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama Nominations Forest Gate by Peter Akinti A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth True Murder by Yaba Badoe All the Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell Class by Jane Beaton Seahorses Are Real by Zillah Bethell Citizen by Charlie Brooks McNaughten by Sian Busby The Art of Losing by Rebecca Connell The Overnight Fame of Steffi McBride by Andrew Crofts The Isle of Dogs by Daniel Davies Welcome to Life by Alice De Smith Wild Oats by Michael Edwards Mr Toppit by Charles Elton Footnotes to Sex by Mia Farlane Never Never by David Gaffney Even by Andrew Grant The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey 50 Ways to Find a Lover by Lucy-Anne Holmes Soothing Music for Stray Cats by Jayne Joso Swimming by Nicola Keegan Baby Barista and the Art of War by Tim Kevan The Sweet Smell of Decay by Paul Lawrence Me Cheeta by James Lever The Incendiary's Trail by James McCreet All the Colours of the Town by Liam McIlvanney John the Revelator by Peter Murphy Afterlife by Sean O'Brien Among Thieves by Mez Packer Talk of the Town by Jacob Polley Kill-Grief by Caroline Rance Designs for a Happy Home by Matthew Reynolds Little Gods by Anna Richards The Letters by Fiona Robyn Pynter Bender by Jacob Ross The Devil’s Music by Jane Rusbridge Dog Fellow's Ghost by Gavin Smith Hammer by Sara Stockbridge The Reinvention of Ivy Brown by Roberta Taylor The Alternative Hero by Tim Thornton Dr Ragab's Universal Language by Robert Twigger Love Me by Gemma Weekes After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
2008/2009 Winner Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith Shortlist A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi The Outcast by Sadie Jones Spider by Michael Morley Longlist The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams One Man's Empire by Geoffrey Bird The Paradise Trail by Duncan Campbell How to Survive Your Sisters by Ellie Campbell The Palace of Strange Girls by Sallie Day The Love of My Life by Louise Douglas The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato Testament by Alis Hawkins Out of a Clear Sky by Sally Hinchcliffe Nights Beneath the Nation by Denis Kehoe Warrior of Rome 1: Fire in the East by Harry Sidebottom The End of Sleep by Rowan Somerville The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling Monster Love by Carol Topolski An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse Nominations Touching Distance by Rebecca Abrams The Sun and Moon Corrupted by Philip Ball All the Dogs by Daniel Bennett The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell Broken by Daniel Clay Between Two Seas by RD Cook His Other Lover by Lucy Dawson Red to Black by Alex Dryden Shadowing The Sun by Lily Dunn Submarine by Joe Dunthorne My Vintage Summer by Jane Elmor The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway Blackmoor by Edward Hogan Show Me The Sky by Nicholas Hogg Blood Tender by Rachel Ingrams Crusaders by Richard T Kelly Little Monsters by Charles Lambert The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money by Thomas Leveritt Psalm 119 by Heather McRobie Lost Boy by James Miller The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller Kill Your Friends by John Niven The Minutes of the Lazarus Club by Tony Pollard God's Own Country by Ross Raisin That Immortal Jukebox Sensation by Gareth R Roberts The Sleepwalker's Introduction to Flight by Sion Scott-Wilson The Last Exile by EV Seymour London and the South-East by David Szalay 24 for 3 by Jennie Walker Fighting Pretty by Louise Walsh Of Merchants and Heroes by Paul Waters The Road from Damascus by Robin Yassin-Kassab
2007/2008 Winner Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday Shortlist In the Woods by Tana French The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding Gifted by Nikita Lalwani Mosquito by Roma Tearne The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way Longlist Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett Alby and Me by John C Bird The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies My Side of the Story by Will Davis Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki Playing with the Moon by Eliza Graham What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn White Rose Rebel by Janet Paisley Absolution by Caro Ramsay Asboville by Danny Rhodes The Illumination of Merton Browne by JM Shaw Resistance by Owen Sheers The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson The Messenger Of Athens by Anne Zouroudi Nominations Mirror, Mirror by Maria Alvarez Heading South by Luke Bitmead & Catherine Richards Cargo Fever by Will Buckingham The Crowded Bed by Mary Cavanagh The Crimson Cavalier by Mary Andrea Clarke Coward on the Beach by James Delingpole The Great North Road by Annabel Dore If Minds Had Toes by Lucy Eyre According to Ruth by Jane Feaver Truth Dare Kill by Gordon Ferris The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds When to Walk by Rebecca Gowers A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Greig The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Winter under Water by James Hopkin This Time of Dying by Reina James Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers Redemption by Kay Langdale The Secrets of Married Women by Carol Mason You Can Live Forever by Julie Maxwell In Search of the Missing Eyelash by Karen Mcleod Fresh by Mark McNay Crow Stone by Jenni Mills Apples by Richard Milward The Swap by Antony Moore A Gentle Axe by RN Morris Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips Behind You by Linda Regan Overexposure by Hugo Rifkind The Pools by Bethan Roberts In Search of Adam by Caroline Smailes Broken Harmony by Roz Southey Here or There by Rebecca Strong How We Were Lost by Megan Taylor Things to Make and Mend by Ruth Thomas Lucy in the Sky by Paige Toon Journey by Jae Watson Salvage by Gee Williams
2006/2007 Winner The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan Shortlist Gang of Four by Liz Byrski Where They Were Missed by Lucy Caldwell The Observations by Jane Harris Mr Clarinet by Nick Stone Longlist Disobedienceby Naomi Alderman Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan Shadow of the Serpent by David Ashton Mr Midshipman's Fury by GS Beard The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne The Emigrant's Farewell by Liam Browne The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls by RS Downie Rites of Spring by Jessica Duchen Mark 11 by Chris Farnell Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna The Sorrow of Sisters by Wendy K Harris Corn Dolls by Patrick Lennon Demo by Alison Miller Daddy's Girls by Tasmina Perry Electricity by Ray Robinson Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir Bareback by Kit Whitfield Bretheren by Robyn Young Nominations Clear Water by Will Ashon Olive Readers by Christine Aziz Blue Man Falling by Frank Barnard Hound Dog by Richard Blandford Devoted Sisters by Alison Buck Library of the Soul by Simon Buck Lessons in Duck Shooting by Jayne Buxton Seeds of Greatness by Jon Canter Murder in Steeple Martin by Lesley Cookman Going Home by Harriet Evans Four Days in June by Iain Gale Passing Shadows by Della Galton The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin Holy Joe by Robert Graham Just a Little Disco on an Open Top Bus by Candy Guard Two-Way Split by Allan Guthrie Raffy's Shapes by Tamar Hodes Tombstoning by Doug Johnstone Bob Burns Investigates - The Mallorca Connection by Peter Kerr Broken Biscuits by Liz Kettle Giraffe by JM Ledgard The Corrupted by Dennis Lewis In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar Incredible Bodies by Ian McGuire Coast to Coast by Jan Minshull The Outgoing Man by Glen Neath Trussed by Shiromi Pinto Patrick's Alphabet by Michael Symmons Roberts The Extra Large Medium by Helen Slavin The Giro Playboy by Michael Smith Felicity Fights Back by Stella Sykes Shawnie by Ed Trewavas Among Ruins by Harriet Vyner High John the Conqueror by Jim Younger
2005/2006 Winner A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Shortlist The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard The Water Horse by Julia Gregson This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
Longlist Sayonara Bar by Susan Barker How To Be Famous by Alison Bond Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke The Italian Quarter by Domenica De Rosa Best Man by Matt Dunn 26a by Diana Evans Dancing on Thorns by Rebecca Horsfall Seventy Two Virgins by Boris Johnson Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride Fitzgerald's Wood by David Nwokedi The Teahouse on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens Painter Man by Jeff Phelps That We Might Never Meet Again by Philip Robinson Hide and Seek by Clare Sambrook The Republic of Trees by Sam Taylor The Not Knowing by Cathi Unsworth Long Gone Anybody by Susannah Waters
Nominations Fashion Victim by Sam Baker A Game With Sharpened Knives by Neil Belton My Name is Denise Forrester by Nick Brooks The Creation Myths by Clare Brown It’s All Right Now by Charles Chadwick The Great Stink by Clare Clark Incendiary by Chris Cleave Winkler by Giles Coren Heredity by Jenny Davidson The Club by Richard Eyre No Fireworks by Rodge Glass Ten Men by Alexandra Gray The Ardly Effect by Mitis Green The Colour of a Dog Running Away by Richard Gwyn Grievous Angel by Jane Hill The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs Laughing as They Chased Us by Sarah Jackman Piggy Monk Square by Grace Jolliffe The Last Llanelli Train by Robert Lewis Eat, Drink and Be Married by Eve Makis Borrowed Body by Valerie Mason-John Escaping Reality by Geoff Nelder The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi The Valley by Barry Pilton Too Weird for Ziggy by Sylvie Simmons Have Love, Will Travel by Lucy Sweet The Reunion by Sue Walker
2004/2005 Winner Boy A by Jonathan Trigell Shortlist Perception of Death by Louise Anderson Betrayal in Naples by Neil Griffiths The Two Pound Tram by William Newton At Risk by Stella Rimington Longlist Valaida by Candace Allen Frozen by Richard Burke The Land as Viewed from the Sea by Richard Collins Phoenix by John Connor The Glass House by Sophie Cooke The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe How the Light Gets In. by MJ Hyland The Greatest Gift by Danny Leigh The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long The Society of Others by William Nicholson Run for Home by Sheila Quigley Stillriver by Andrew Rosenheim How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Something Beginning with by Sarah Salway Saint Valentine by Nick Tomlinson The River by Tricia Wastvedt The Sunlit Stage by Simonetta Wenkert The Edge of Death by Phill Williams Nominations PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright All Shook Up by Catherine Daly Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean Richard's Way by Bryan Drake Snobs by Julian Fellowes The 79 Series by Susan French Meat Market by Dee Gordon The Bestowing Sun by Neil Grimmett The Mosaic of Shadows by Tom Harper Diary of a C-List Celeb by Paul Hendy Demon of the Air by Simon Levack Too Beautiful for You by Rod Liddle The Lads from the Ferry by Alex Mabon No Wonder I Take a Drink by Laura Marney My Prime Ministers and I by Stephen Maybery Elvis, Jesus and Me by Emer McCourt Wednesday's Child by Eloise Millar Sleeping with the Fishes by Toby Moore Enid Blyton Summers by Alice Mortlock The Third person by Steve Mosby Wish I May by Justine Picardie Dark Star by Lee Roebuck The Craze by Paul Southern Arnolfini by Jack Thomas Absent without Leave by John Thomson Brass by Helen Walsh Bullet Points by Mark Watson Deadfolk by Charlie Williams The Final Insanity by Terry Williams
2003/2004 Winner The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Shortlist Brick Lane by Monica Ali Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall Dissolution by CJ Sansom Spit Against the Wind by Anna Smith
Longlist Offcomer by Jo Baker The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick What Goes Round by Maeve Clarke The Navigation Log by Martin Corrick English Correspondence by Janet Davey Buddha Da by Anne Donovan Backlash by Rod Duncan Spencer's List by Lissa Evans The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson Don’t Try This At Home by Katie Pearson Secret Life by Esther Rantzen Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes Refusal Shoes by Tony Saint Isabel And Rocco by Anna Stothard Stripped Bare by Lowri Turner The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
Nominations Special by Bella Bathurst Running From The Darkness by Richard Bryon Deadwater by Sean Burke Wanderers and Islanders by Steve Cockayne The Last Girl by Stephan Collishaw An English Superhero by Mark Cooke Thinking of England by Nicola Daly The Executioner’s Art by David Fine Homage to a Firing Squad by Tariq Goddard Monument by Ian Graham Disturbance of the Inner Ear by Joyce Hackett Accidents In The Home by Tessa Hadley Twelve Step Fandango by Chris Haslam Sundoom by Tony Hollett Sleb by Andrew Holmes Massive by Mickey Hutton London Dust by Lee Jackson Skywalking by Jemma Kennedy Dog Days by Jeffrey Lee Unknown Soldiers by Mark Leech Erskine’s Box by Kym Lloyd Diamond White Crystals by David Maxwell-Lees Crime Tsar by Nichola McAuliffe A Feast of Carrion by Keith McCarthy The Enemy Within by Catherine Phillips London Irish by Zane Radcliffe Spiral by Andy Remic Charlie Big Potatoes by Phil Robinson Sun Dog by Monique Roffey Taken for a Ride by Neil Roland Eating Wolves by Alexis Scott An Empty Room by Talitha Stevenson Politics by Adam Thirlwell The Blighted Cliffs by Edwin Thomas On Cape Three Points by Christopher Wakling The First Diary of William Reynolds by John L Ward One to Watch by Shane Watson The Leader of the Swans by Linda Lee Welch Family Bites by Lisa Williams