| Year | Fiction |
|---|
| 2001 |
If the Invader Comes
Derek Beaven
4th Estate | A Son of War
Melvyn Bragg
Sceptre | Shamrock Tea
Ciaran Carson
Granta Books | The Element of Water
Stevie Davies
Women’s Press | The Pickup
Nadine Gordimer
Bloomsbury | Dogside Story
Patricia Grace
Women’s Press | By the Sea
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Bloomsbury | How to be Good
Nick Hornby
Viking | Wolfy and the Strudelbakers
Zvi Jagendorf
Dewi Lewis Publishing | Translated Accounts
James Kelman
Secker & Warburg | The Blue Tango
Eoin McNamee
Faber & Faber | Fairness
Ferdinand Mount
Chatto & Windus | Half a Life
V S Naipaul
Picador | The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
Scholastic | The Death of Vishnu
Manil Suri
Bloomsbury | The Stone Carvers
Jane Urquhart
Bloomsbury | The Leto Bundle
Marina Warner
Chatto & Windus | According to Queeney
Beryl Bainbridge
Little, Brown |
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| 2002 |
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas
Dannie Abse
Robson Books | Shroud
John Banville
Picador | Critical Injuries
Joan Barfoot
Women’s Press | Any Human Heart
William Boyd
Hamish Hamilton | The Next Big Thing
Anita Brookner
Viking | Peacetime
Robert Edric
Doubleday | Spies
Michael Frayn
Faber and Faber | Still Here
Linda Grant
Little, Brown | The Mulberry Empire
Philip Hensher
Flamingo | Who’s Sorry Now?
Howard Jacobson
Jonathan Cape | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Jon McGregor
Bloomsbury | Dorian
Will Self
Viking | The Autograph Man
Zadie Smith
Hamish Hamilton | To the Last City
Colin Thubron
Chatto & Windus |
|
| 2003 |
A Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips
Knopf (US)/Secker & Warburg (UK) | Yellow Dog
Martin Amis
Jonathan Cape | Turn Again Home
Carol Birch
Virago | Crossing the Lines
Melvyn Bragg
Sceptre | Elizabeth Costello
J. M. Coetzee
Secker & Warburg | The Taxi Driver’s Daughter
Julia Darling
Viking Penguin | Schopenhauer’s Telescope
Gerald Donovan
Scribner | The Romantic
Barbara Gowdy
Flamingo | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
| The Nick of Time
Francis King
Arcadia | Heligoland
Shena Mackay
Jonathan Cape | Jazz etc
John Murray
Flambard Fiction | Something Might Happen
Julie Myerson
Jonathan Cape | Judge Savage
Tim Parks
Secker & Warburg | Waxwings
Jonathan Raban
Picador | The Light of Day
Graham Swift
Hamish Hamilton | Frankie & Stankie
Barbara Trapido
Bloomsbury |
|
| 2004 |
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4th Estate | Maps for Lost Lovers
Nadeem Aslam
Faber & Faber | Clear: A Transparent Novel
Nicola Barker
4th Estate | The Island Walkers
John Bemrose
John Murray | Havoc, in its Third Year
Ronan Bennett
Bloomsbury | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Bloomsbury | Always the Sun
Neil Cross
Scribner | Becoming Strangers
Louise Dean
Scribner | A Blade of Grass
Lewis Desoto
Maia Press | Cooking with Fernet Branca
James Hamilton Paterson
Faber & Faber | The Honeymoon
Justin Haythe
Picador | The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US), Virago (UK) | Sixty Lights
Gail Jones
Harvill Press | The Unnumbered
Sam North
Scribner | Snowleg
Nicholas Shakespeare
Harvill Press | Cherry
Matt Thorne
Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
|
| 2005 |
The Harmony Silk Factory
Tash Aw
Fourth Estate | Slow Man
J. M. Coetzee
Secker & Warburg | In the Fold
Rachel Cusk
Faber & Faber | All For Love
Dan Jacobson
Hamish Hamilton | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Marina Lewycka
Viking | Beyond Black
Hilary Mantel
Fourth Estate | Saturday
Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape | The People’s Act of Love
James Meek
Canongate | Shalimar The Clown
Salman Rushdie
Jonathan Cape | This Thing Of Darkness
Harry Thompson
Headline Review | This Is The Country
William Wall
Sceptre |
|
| 2006 |
The Ruby in her Navel
Barry Unsworth
Hamish Hamilton | The Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson
Hamish Hamilton | Be Near Me
Andrew O’Hagan
Faber & Faber | The Perfect Man
Naeem Murr
William Heinemann | Black Swan Green
David Mitchell
Sceptre | The Emperor’s Children
Claire Messud
Picador | So Many Ways to Begin
Jon McGregor
Bloomsbury | The Other Side of the Bridge
Mary Lawson
Chatto & Windus | Seven Lies
James Lasdun
Jonathan Cape | Kalooki Nights
Howard Jacobson,
Jonathan Cape | Get a Life
Nadine Gordimer
Bloomsbury | Gathering the Water
Robert Edric
Doubleday | Theft: A Love Story
Peter Carey
Faber & Faber |
|
| 2007 |
Self Help
Edward Docx
Picador | The Gift Of Rain
Tan Twan Eng
Myrmidon | The Welsh Girl
Peter Ho Davies
Sceptre | Gifted
Nikita Lalwani
Viking | What Was Lost
Catherine O’Flynn
Tindal Street | Consolation
Michael Redhill
William Heinemann | Winnie & Wolf
A.N.Wilson
Hutchinson |
|
| 2008 |
Girl in a Blue Dress
Gaynor Arnold
| From A to X
John Berger
| The Lost Dog
Michelle de Kretser
| A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Mohammed Hanif
| Netherland
Joseph O'Neill
| The Enchantress of Florence
Salman Rushdie
| Child 44
Tom Rob Smith
|
|
| 2009 |
How to Paint a Dead Man
Sarah Hall
Faber & Faber | The Wilderness
Samantha Harvey
Jonathan Cape | Me Cheeta
James Lever
Fourth Estate | Not Untrue & Not Unkind
Ed O’Loughlin
Penguin | Heliopolis
James Scudamore
Harvill Secker | Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
Penguin | Love and Summer
William Trevor
Penguin |
|
| Year | Fiction |
|---|
| 2010 |
The Betrayal
Helen Dunmore
Penguin - Fig Tree | The Stars in the Bright Sky
Alan Warner
Random House - Jonathan Cape | The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas
Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock | Trespass
Rose Tremain
Random House - Chatto & Windus | Skippy Dies
Paul Murray
Penguin - Hamish Hamilton/Faber & Faber | February
Lisa Moore
Random House - Chatto & Windus | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell
Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre |
|
| 2011 |
On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry
Faber | A Cupboard Full of Coats
Yvvette Edwards
Oneworld | The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst
Picador - Pan Macmillan | The Last Hundred Days
Patrick McGuinness
Seren Books | Far to Go
Alison Pick
Headline Review | The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Jane Rogers
Sandstone Press | Derby Day
D.J. Taylor
Chatto & Windus - Random House |
|
| 2012 |
The Yips
Nicola Barker
Fourth Estate | Communion Town
Sam Thompson
Fourth Estate | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce
Doubleday | Skios
Michael Frayn
Faber & Faber | Philida
André Brink
Harvill Secker | The Teleporation Accident
Ned Beauman
Sceptre |
|
| 2013 |
Five Star Billionaire
Tash Aw
Fourth Estate | The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
Eve Harris
Sandstone Press | The Kills
Richard House
Picador | Unexploded
Alison MacLeod
Hamish Hamilton | TransAtlantic
Colum McCann
Bloomsbury | Almost English
Charlotte Mendelson
Mantle | The Spinning Heart
Donal Ryan
Doubleday Ireland |
|
| 2014 |
The Blazing World
Siri Hustvedt
Sceptre | The Wake
Paul Kingsnorth
Unbound | The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
Sceptre | Us
David Nicholls
Hodder & Stoughton | The Dog
Joseph O'Neill
Fourth Estate | Orfeo
Richard Powers
Atlantic Books | History of the Rain
Niall Williams
Bloomsbury |
|
| 2015 |
Lila
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | The Chimes
Anna Smaill
Sceptre | Sleeping on Jupiter
Anuradha Roy
MacLehose Press, Quercus | The Illuminations
Andrew O’Hagan
Faber & Faber | The Moor's Account
Laila Lalami
Periscope, Garnet Publishing | The Green Road
Anne Enright
Jonathan Cape | Did You Ever Have a Family
Bill Clegg
Jonathan Cape |
|
| 2016 |
The Schooldays of Jesus
J.M. Coetzee
Harvill Secker | Serious Sweet
A.L. Kennedy
Jonathan Cape | The North Water
Ian McGuire
Scribner UK | Hystopia
David Means
Faber & Faber | The Many
Wyl Menmuir
Salt | Work Like Any Other
Virginia Reeves
Scribner UK | My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
Viking |
|
| 2017 |
Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie
Bloomsbury | The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy
Hamish Hamilton | Reservoir 13
Jon McGregor
4th Estate | Solar Bones
Mike McCormack
Canongate | Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
Faber & Faber | Swing Time
Zadie Smith
Penguin Press | The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday/Penguin Random House |
|
| 2018 |
Snap
You Belinda Bauer
Bantam Press | Sabrina
Nick Drnaso
Granta Books | In Our Mad and Furious City
Guy Gunaratne
Tinder Press | The Water Cure
Sophie Mackintosh
Hamish Hamilton | Warlight
Michael Ondaatje
Jonathan Cape | Normal People
Sally Rooney
Faber & Faber | From a Low and Quiet Sea
Donal Ryan
Doubleday Ireland |
|
| 2019 |
Night Boat to Tangier
Kevin Barry
Canongate Books | My Sister, The Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Atlantic Books | The Wall
John Lanchester
Faber & Faber | The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah Levy
Hamish Hamilton | Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
4th Estate | Lanny
Max Porter
Faber & Faber | Frankissstein
Jeanette Winterson
Jonathan Cape |
|
| Year | Fiction |
|---|
| 2020 |
Who They Was
Gabriel Krauze
4th Estate, HarperCollins | The Mirror & The Light
Hilary Mantel
4th Estate, HarperCollins | Apeirogon
Colum McCann
Bloomsbury Publishing | Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing | Redhead by The Side of The Road
Anne Tyler
Chatto & Windus, Vintage | Love and Other Thought Experiments
Sophie Ward
Corsair, Little, Brown | How Much of These Hills is Gold
C Pam Zhang
Virago, Little, Brown |
|
| 2021 |
Second Place
Rachel Cusk
Faber | The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris
Tinder Press, Headline, Hachette Book Group | Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber | An Island
Karen Jennings
Holland House Books | A Town Called Solace
Mary Lawson
Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH | China Room
Sunjeev Sahota
Harvill Secker, Vintage, PRH | Light Perpetual
Francis Spufford
Faber |
|
| 2022 |
Booth
Karen Joy Fowler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons | Trust
Hernan Diaz
Riverhead Books | Case Study
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Biblioasis | Maps of our Spectacular Bodies
Maddie Mortimer
Scribner | Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley
Knopf | After Sappho
Selby Wynn Schwartz
Liveright | The Colony
Audrey Magee
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
|
| 2023 |
A Spell of Good Things
Ay??bámi Adébáy??
| Old God’s Time
Sebastian Barry
| How To Build a Boat
Elaine Feeney
| Pearl
Siân Hughes
| All the Little Bird-Hearts
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
| In Ascension
Martin MacInnes
| The House of Doors
Tan Twan Eng
|
|
| 2024 |
Wild Houses
Colin Barrett
| Headshot
Rita Bullwinkel
| This Strange Eventful History
Claire Messud
| Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
| Enlightenment
Sarah Perry
| Playground
Richard Powers
| My Friends
Hisham Matar
Random House / Penguin Random House |
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