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2013
2012 Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
Umbrella, Will Self
The Lighthouse, Alison Moore
Swimming Home, Deborah Levy
Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil
2011
Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman
Snowdrops, A.D. Miller
2010
The Long Song, Andrea Levy
2009
Summertime, J.M. Coetzee
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
2008
Northern Clemency, Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
2007
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
2006
Carry Me Down, M.J. Hyland
In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
2005
Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
The Accidental, Ali Smith
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
2004
The Electric Michelangelo, Sarah Hall
The Master, Colm Toibin
I’ll Go to Bed at Noon, Gerard Woodward
2003
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
The Good Doctor, Damon Galgut
Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller
2002
Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
Unless, Carol Shields
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
2001
Oxygen, Andrew Miller
The Dark Room, Rachel Sieffert
Hotel World, Ali Smith
2000
The Keepers of Truth, Michael Collins
English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
The Deposition of Father McGreevey, Brian O’Doherty
1999
Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai
Headlong, Michael Frayn
Our Fathers, Andrew O’Hagan
The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
1998
Master Georgie, Beryl Bainbridge
The Industry of Souls, Martin Booth
The Restraint of Beasts, Magnus Mills
1997
The Underground Man, Mick Jackson
Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty
Europa, Tim Parks
The Essence of the Thing, Madeline St. John
1996
Every Man for Himself, Beryl Bainbridge
Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
1995
In Every Face I Meet, Justin Cartwright
The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
The Riders, Tim Winston
1994
Reef, Romesh Gunesekera
The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
Beside the
Knowledge of Angels, Jill Paton Walsh
1993
Under the Frog, Tibor Fischer
Scar Tissue, Michael Ignatieff
Remembering
Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips
The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
1992
Serenity House, Christopher Hope
The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
Daughters of the House, Michele Roberts
1991 The Famished Road, Ben Okri
Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis
The Van, Roddy Doyle
Such a Long Journey, Rohinton Mistry
The Redundancy of Courage, Timothy Mo
Reading Turgenev, William Trevor
1990 Possession: A Romance, A.S. Byatt*
An Awfully Big Adventure, Beryl Bainbridge
The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald
Amongst Women, John McGahern
Lies of Silence, Brian Moore
Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
1989 The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
The Book of Evidence, John Banville
Jigsaw, Sybille Bedford
A Disaffection, James Kelman
Restoration, Rose Tremain
1988 Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey*
Utz, Bruce Chatwin
The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
Nice Work, David Lodge
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie*
The Lost Father, Marina Warner
1987 Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively*
Anthills of the Savannah , Chinua Achebe
Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd
Circles of Deceit, Nina Bowden
The Colour of Blood, Brian Moore
The Book and the Brotherhood, Iris Murdoch
1986 The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis*
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood*
Gabriel’s Lament, Paul Bailey
What’s Bred in the Bone, Robertson Davies
An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
An Insular Possession, Timothy Mo
1985 The Bone People, Keri Hulme
Illywhacker, Peter Carey
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing, J.L. Carr
The Good Terrorist, Doris Lessing
Last Letters from Hav, Jan Morris
The Good Apprentice, Iris Murdoch
1984 Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard
Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
In Custody, Anita Desai
According to Mark, Penelope Lively
Small World, David Lodge
1983 Life & Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury
Flying to Nowhere, John Fuller
The Illusionist, Anita Mason
Shame, Salman Rushdie
Waterland, Graham Swift
1982 Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally
Silence Among the Weapons, John Arden
An Ice-Cream War, William Boyd
Constance or Solitary Practices, Lawrence Durrell
The 27th Kingdom, Alice Thomas Ellis
Sour Sweet, Timothy Mo
1981 Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie*
The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas
Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark
The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan
The Sirian Experiments, Doris Lessing
Good Behaviour, Molly Keane
1980 Rites of Passage, William Golding
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
Clear Light of Day, Anita Desai
The Beggar Maid, Alice Munro
No Country for Young Men, Julia O’Faolain
Pascali’s Island, Barry Unsworth
A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
1979 Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
Confederates, Thomas Keneally
A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
Joseph, Julian Rathbone
Joseph, Julian Rathbone
Praxis, Fay Weldon
1978 The Sea, the Sea, Iris Murdoch
Jake’s Thing, Kingsley Amis
Rumours of Rain, Andre Brink
The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald
God on the Rocks, Jane Gardam
A Five-Year Sentence, Bernice Rubens
1977 Staying On, Paul Scott
Peter Smart’s Confessions, Paul Bailey
Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood
Shadows on our Skin, Jennifer Johnston
The Road to Lichfield , Penelope Lively
Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
1976 Saville, David Storey
An Instant in the Wind, Andre Brink
Rising, R.C. Hutchinson
The Doctor’s Wife, Brian Moore
King Fisher Lives, Julian Rathbone
The Children of Dynmouth, William Trevor
1975 Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Gossip from the Forest , Thomas Keneally
1974 Holiday, Stanley Middleton
The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer
Ending Up, Kingsley Amis
The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge
In Their Wisdom, C.P. Snow
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
The Green Equinox, Elizabeth Mavor
The Dressmaker, Beryl Bainbridge
1972 G., John Berger
The Bird of the Night, Susan Hill
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Thomas Keneally
Pasmore, David Storey
1971 In a Free State , V.S. Naipaul
The Big Chapel, Thomas Kilroy
Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing
St. Urbain’s Horseman, Moredecai Richler
Goshawk Squadron, Derek Robinson
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont , Elizabeth Taylor
1970* Troubles, J.G. Farrell
The Birds on the Trees, Nina Bawden
The Bay of Noon , Shirley Hazzard
Fire From Heaven, Mary Renault
The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark
The Vivisector, Patrick White
1970 The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens
The Conjunction, T.W. Wheeler
John Brown’s Body, A.L. Barker
Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
Bruno’s Dream, Iris Murdoch
Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, William Trevor
1969 Something to Answer For, P.H. Newby
Figures in a Landscape, Barry England
Impossible Object, Nicholas Mosley
The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch
The Public Image, Muriel Spark
From Scenes Like These, G.M. Williams