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2024

Winner
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

Shortlist
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray
You Are Here by David Nicholls
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
High Vaultage by Chris & Jen Sugden
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2023

Winner
The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer

Shortlist
Murder at Crime Manor by Fergus Craig
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors by Aravind Jayan
Darling by India Knight
Mother Hens by Sophie McCartney
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2022

Winner
The Trees by Percival Everett

Shortlist
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes
Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein
Impossible by Sarah Lotz
The Lock In by Phoebe Luckhurst
Are We Having Fun Yet? by Lucy Mangan
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
One Day I Shall Astonish The World by Nina Stibbe
Harrow by Joy Williams
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2021

Winner
The Accidental Collector by Guy Kennaway

Shortlist
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
Between Beirut and the Moon by A Naji Bakhti
Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
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2020

Winner
Flake by Matthew Dooley

Shortlist
Nobber by Oisin Fagan
Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane
Weather by Jenny Offill
46% Better than Dave by Alastair Puddick
House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild
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2019

Winner
Reasons To Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe

Shortlist
Vacuum In The Dark by Jen Beagin
In At The Deep End by Kate Davies
Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
Francis Plug: Writer in Residence by Paul Ewen
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2018
No prize awarded

2017

Winner
Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding
 
Shortlist
Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
To Be Continued… by James Robertson
Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo
Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe
Here Comes Trouble by Simon Wroe
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2016

Winners
The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
 
Shortlist
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka
There's Only Two David Beckhams by John O'Farrell
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2015

Winner
Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party by Alexander McCall Smith
 
Shortlist
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh
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2014

Winner
Lost for Words by Edward St Aubyn
 
Shortlist
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
The Last Word by Hanif Kureishi
Straight White Male by John Niven
The Thrill of it All  by Joseph O’Connor
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2013

Winner
Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
 
Shortlist
England's Lane by Joseph Connolly
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
Skios by Michael Frayn
Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach
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2012

Winner
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
 
Shortlist
Jude in London (Old Street) by Julian Gough
Capital by John Lanchester
The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O'Farrell
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend
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2011

Winner
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
 
Shortlist
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
Comfort and Joy by India Knight
The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
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2010

Winner
Solar by Ian McEwan
 
Shortlist
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Diamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray
One Day by David Nicholls
From Aberystwyth with Love by Malcolm Pryce
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2009

Winner
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
 
Shortlist
A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre
Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
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2008

Winner
The Butt by Will Self
 
Shortlist
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Submarine by Joe Dunthrone
Jude: Level 1 by Julian Gough
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor
Sunday at the Cross Bones by John Walsh
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2007

Winner
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
 
Shortlist
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
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2006

Winner
All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre
 
Shortlist
Wicked! by Jilly Cooper
The Last Llanelli Train by Robert Lewis
May Contain Nuts by John O'Farrell
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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2005

Winner
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
 
Shortlist
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
Mr Vogel by Lloyd Jones
Happy Accidents by Tiffany Murray
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce
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2004

Winner
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
 
Shortlist
Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach
Overtaken by Alexei Sayle
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2003

Winner
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
 
Shortlist
Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellmann
Don't You Want Me by India Knight
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
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2002

Winner
Spies by Michael Frayn
 
Shortlist
The Gatekeeper by Terry Eagleton
Spencer's List by Lissa Evans
Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
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2001

Winner
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
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2000

Winner
The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson
 
Shortlist
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks
The Book of Obituaries by Hugh Massingberd
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend​​
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