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2020
Winner
Surge by Jay Bernard

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Inferno by Catherine Cho
​Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Tongues of Fire by Sean Hewitt
Nightingale by Marina Kemp
2019
Winner
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus

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Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Testament by Kim Sherwood
2018
Winner
Kings of the Yukon by Adam Weymouth
 
Shortlist
The Reading Cure by Laura Freeman
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
 
2017
Winner
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
 
Shortlist
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman by Minoo Dinshaw
The End of the Day by Claire North
The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico
The Lauras by Sara Taylor
 
2016
Winner
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
 
Shortlist
An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It by Jessie Greengrass
Physical by Andrew McMillan
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
 
2015
Winner
Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe
 
Shortlist
The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
The Shore by Sara Taylor
 
Winners
2009
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
 
2008
The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds
 
2007
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
 
2004
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane
 
2003
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
 
2001
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
 
2000
Affinity by Sarah Waters
 
1999
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you by Paul Farley
 
1998
Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division by Patrick French
 
1997
I May Be Some Time by Francis Spufford
 
1996
Truffle Beds by Katherine Pierpoint
 
1995
Pig by Andrew Cowan
 
1994
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
 
1993
Kid by Simon Armitage
 
1992
Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
 
1991
Four Bare Legs in a Bed by Helen Simpson
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