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2025

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Babylonia by Costanza Casati
Sycorax by Nydia Hetherington
Redemption by Jack Jordan
A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

Longlist
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
Killer Potential by Hannah Dietch
The Pretender by Jo Harkin
Ghost Story by Elisa Lodato
Bethnal Green by Amelie Skoda
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2024

Winner
Saltblood by Francesca De Tores

Shortlist
Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernieres
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Our Hideous Progeny by CE Mcgill
The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B Miller
Hard By a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili
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Longlist
The Spy by Ajay Chowdhury
A Haunting In The Arctic by CJ Cooke
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
Gods of the Lost Crossroads by Robin Lloyd-Jones
The African Samurai by Craig Shreve
Shigidi and the Brass Head Of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016 

2023

Winner
No Country for Girls by Emma Styles

Shortlist
My Name Is Yip by Paddy Crewe
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Longlist
Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
The Romantic by William Boyd
The English Fuhrer by Rory Clements
The Lost Wife by Susanna Moore
Eversion by Alastair Reynolds
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
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2022

Winner
Where Blood Runs Cold by Giles Kristian

Shortlist
The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
The Vacation by John Marrs
The Plant Hunter by TL Mogford
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook

Longlist
The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews
The Man In The Bunker by Rory Clements
Oath Bound by Richard Cullen
Operation Black Key by Kim Hughes
The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy
Emperor of Dust by Jonathan Spencer
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2021

Winner
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

Shortlist
City of Vengeance by DV Bishop
Otto Eckhart’s Ordeal by Niall Edworthy
The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah
Total Blackout by Alex Shaw
Rogue by James Swallow

Longlist
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne
The Hill by Ali Bryan
The Englishman by David Gilman
Operation Certain Death by Kim Hughes
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
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2019

Winner
Firefly by Henry Porter

Shortlist
Sleeper: The Red Storm by JD Fennell
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell
Preservation by Jock Serong
To The Lions by Holly Watt
 
Longlist
The Encircling Sea by Adrian Goldsworthy
Only Killers And Thieves by Paul Howarth
The Relic Hunters by David Leadbeater
Winter World by AG Riddle
The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
Liars' Paradox by Taylor Stevens​
2025 ​2024 ​2023 ​2022 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016 

2018

Winner
A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee
 
Shortlist
Nucleus by Rory Clements
Sugar Money by Jane Harris
No Good Brother by Tyler Keevil
Looking for Evelyn by Maggie Ritchie
Pendragon by James Wilde
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2017

Winner
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
 
Shortlist
Crisis by Frank Gardner
The Last Horseman by David Gilman
Finisterre by Graham Hurley
On Starlit Seas by Sara Sheridan
Nomad by James Swallow
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2016

Winner
The Tears of Dark Water by Corban Addison
 
Shortlist
Vanishing Games by Roger Hobbs
Eagles at War by Ben Kane
The Revelation Code by Andy McDermott
Britannia by Simon Scarrow
Into the Fire by Manda Scott
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