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2019/2020
Winner
Island Song by Madeleine Bunting

Shortlist
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
Pieces of Me by Natalie Hart
She Lies in Wait by Gytha Lodge
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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
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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
Disobedience  by 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
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