2021
Winner
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
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Shortlist
Here Comes the Miracle by Anna Beecher
My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan

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Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award

2020
Winner
Surge by Jay Bernard

Shortlist
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

Shortlist
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

2009
​Winner
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin

2008
​Winner
The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds

2007
​Winner
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

2004
​Winner
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane

2003
​Winner
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes

2001
​Winner
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

2000
​Winner
Affinity by Sarah Waters

1999
​Winner
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you by Paul Farley

1998
​Winner
Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division by Patrick French

1997
​Winner
I May Be Some Time by Francis Spufford

1996
​Winner
Truffle Beds by Katherine Pierpoint

1995
​Winner
Pig by Andrew Cowan

1994
​Winner
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple

1993
​Winner
Kid by Simon Armitage

1992
​Winner
Cambridge by Caryl Phillips

1991
​Winner
Four Bare Legs in a Bed by Helen Simpson