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
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