2021

• Prize Winner: Thomas McMullan for The Last Good Man (Bloomsbury)
• Award Winners
  • Maame Blue for Bad Love (Jacaranda Books)
  • Eley Williams for The Liar’s Dictionary (William Heinemann, Cornerstone)
  • Nneoma Ike-Njoku for The Water House 
  • Graeme Armstrong for The Young Team (Pan Macmillan, Picador)

2020

• Prize Winner: Kathryn Hind for Hitch – £10,000 (Hamish Hamilton)
• Award Winners 
  • Stacey Halls for The Familiars (Zaffre, Bonnier Books) £5,400
  • Isabella Hammad for The Parisian (Jonathan Cape, Vintage) £5,400
  • Okeychukwu Nzelu for The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney (Dialogue Books) £5,400

2019

• Prize Winner: James Clarke for The Litten Path (Salt) £10,000
• Award Winners
  • Samuel Fisher for The Chameleon (Salt) £2,700
  • Imogen Hermes Gowar for The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (Harvill Secker) £2,700
  • Ruqaya Izzidien for The Watermelon Boys (Hoopoe Fiction / AUC Press) £2,700
  • Daisy Lafarge for Paul (Unpublished) £2,700
  • Rebecca Ley for Sweet Fruit, Sour Land (Sandstone Press) £2,700
  • Sophie Mackintosh for The Water Cure (Hamish Hamilton) £2,700

2018

• Prize Winner: Omar Robert Hamilton for The City Always Wins (Faber) £10,000
• Award Winners
  • Sarah Day for Mussolini’s Island (Tinder Press) £3,250
  • Clare Fisher for All the Good Things (Viking) £3,250
  • Eli Goldstone for Strange Heart Beating (Granta Books) £3,250
  • Lloyd Markham for Bad Ideas\Chemicals (Parthian) £3,250
  • Masande Ntshanga for The Reactive (Jacaranda) £3,250

2017

• Prize winner: Daniel Shand for Fallow (Sandstone Press) £10,000
• Award winners
  • Rowan Hisayo Buchanan for Harmless Like You (Hodder & Stoughton) £3,000
  • Elnathan John for Born on a Tuesday (Cassava Republic) £3,000
  • Kathleen Jowittt for Speak Its Name (self-published) £3,000
  • Rob McCarthy for The Hollow Men (Hodder & Stoughton) £3,000
  • Barney Norris for Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain (Transworld) £3,000

2016

• Prize winner: Alex Christofi for Glass (Serpents Tail) £10,000
• Award winners 
  • Irenosen Okojie for Butterfly Fish (Jacaranda Books Art Music) £5,000
  • Natasha Pulley for The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Bloomsbury Circus) £5,000
  • Lucy Wood for Weathering (Bloomsbury) £5,000

2015 

• Prize winner: Ben Fergusson for The Spring of Kasper Meier (Little, Brown) £10,000
• Award winners
  • Emma Healey for Elizabeth is Missing (Viking) £5,000
  • Zoe Pilger for Eat My Heart Out (Serpent’s Tail) £5,000
  • Simon Wroe for Chop Chop (Viking) £5,000

2014 

• Prize winner: Nathan Filer for The Shock of the Fall (HarperCollins) £10,000
• Award winners 
  • NoViolet Bulawayo for We Need New Names (Chatto) £3,750
  • Sam Byers for Idiopathy (Fourth Estate) £3,750
  • Mave Fellowes for Chaplin and Company (Jonathan Cape) £3,750 
  • Matt Greene for Ostrich (Weidenfeld) £3,750

2013 

• Prize winner: Grace McCleen for The Land of Decoration (Chatto and Windus) £8,000
• Award winners
  • Chibundu Onuzo for The Spider King’s Daughter (Faber) £7,000
  • Francesca Segal for The Innocents (Chatto and Windus) £2,500
  • Will Wiles for Care of Wooden Floors (Fourth Estate) £2,500

2012 

• Prize winner: David Whitehouse for Bed (Canongate) £8,000
• Award winners 
  • Kalinda Ashton for The Danger Game (Tindal Street Press) £3,000
  • Elizabeth Day for Scissors, Paper, Stone (Bloomsbury) £3,000 
  • Annabel Pitcher for My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece (Orion/Indigo) £3,000
  • Emma Jane Unsworth for Hungry, the Stars and Everything (The Hidden Gem Press) £3,000

2011 

• Prize winner: Anjali Joseph for Saraswati Park (Fourth Estate) £10,000 
• Award winners 
  • Laura Barton for Twenty-One Locks (Quercus) £6,000
  • Simon Lelic Rupture (Picador) £2,500
  • Robert Williams for Luke and Jon (Faber) £2,500

2010 

• Prize winner: Nadifa Mohamed for Black Mamba Boy (HarperCollins) £10,000
• Award winners
  • Evie Wyld for After the Fire, a Still Small Voice (Jonathan Cape) £7,000
  • Jenn Ashworth for A Kind of Intimacy (Arcadia) £1,500
  • Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani for I Do Not Come to You by Chance (Weidenfeld) £1,500

2009 

• Prize winner: Samantha Harvey for The Wilderness (Jonathan Cape) £12,000
• Award Winner: Eleanor Catton for The Rehearsal (Granta) £8,000

2008

• David Szalay London and the South-East (Jonathan Cape) £10,000 
• Ross Raisin God’s Own Country (Viking) £6,000 
• Thomas Leveritt The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money (Harvill Secker) £2,000 
• Anna Ralph The Floating Island (Arrow Books) £2,000

2007 

• Will Davis for My Side of the Story (Bloomsbury) £10,000 
• Adam Foulds for The Truth About These Strange Times (Weidenfeld) £2,500 
• Cynan Jones for The Long Dry (Parthian) £2,500 
• Julie Maxwell for You Can Live Forever (Jonathan Cape) £2,500 
• Karen Mcleod for In Search of the Missing Eyelash (Jonathan Cape) £2,500

2006

• Nick Laird for Utterly Monkey (Fourth Estate/Harper Perennial) £10,000 
• Peter Hobbs for The Short Day Dying (Faber & Faber) £5,000 
• Nicola Monaghan for The Killing Jar (Chatto & Windus) £5,000

2005

• Susan Fletcher for Eve Green (Fourth Estate) £16,000 
• Helen Walsh for Brass (Canongate) £2,000
• Diana Evans for 26a (Chatto & Windus) £2,000

2004

• Louise Dean for Becoming Strangers (Scribner) £8,000 
• Hannah MacDonald for The Sun Road (Little, Brown) £6,000 
• Anthony Cartwright for The Afterglow (Tindal Street Press) £3,000 
• Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi for The Last Song of Dusk (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) £3,000

2003

• Jon McGregor for If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Bloomsbury) £10,000 
• Sarah Hall for Haweswater (Faber and Faber) £6,000 
• Stephanie Merritt for Gaveston (Faber and Faber) £4,000
• Elizabeth Garner for Nightdancing (Headline) £2,000 
• Zoe Strachan for Negative Space (Picador) £2,000
• Adam Thirlwell for Politics (Jonathan Cape) £1,000

2002

• Hari Kunzru for The Impressionist (Hamish Hamilton) £8,000 
• Rachel Seiffert for The Dark Room (William Heinemann) £5,000 
• Shamim Sarif for The World Unseen (The Women’s Press) £4,000 
• Helen Cross for My Summer of Love (Bloomsbury) £2,000 
• Chloe Hooper for A Child’s Book of True Crime (Jonathan Cape) £2,000 
• Susanna Jones for The Earthquake Bird (Picador) £2,000 
• Gwendoline Riley for Cold Water (Jonathan Cape) £2,000

2001

• Zadie Smith for White Teeth (Hamish Hamilton) £6,000 
• Justin Hill for The Drink and Dream Teahouse (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) £5,000 
• Maggie O’Farrell for After You’d Gone (Headline Review) £5,000 
• Vivien Kelly for Take One Young Man (Arrow) £4,000 
• Mohsin Hamid for Moth Smoke (Granta) £2,500 
• Patrick Neate for Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko (Penguin) £2,500

2000

• Jonathan Tulloch for The Season Ticket (Jonathan Cape) £10,000 
• Julia Leigh for The Hunter (Faber and Faber) £7,000 
• Susan Elderkin for Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains (Fourth Estate) £4,000 
• Galaxy CrazeBy for The Shore (Jonathan Cape) £2,000 
• Nicholas Griffin for The Requiem Shark (Little, Brown) £2,000

1999

• Elliot Perlman for Three Dollars (Faber and Faber) £7,000 
• Catherine Chidgey for In a Fishbone Church (Picador Macmillan) £6,000 
• Giles Foden for The Last King of Scotland (Faber and Faber) £4,000 
• Dennis Bock for Olympia (Bloomsbury) £3,000 
• Rajeev Balasubramanyam for In Beautiful Disguises (unpublished MS, to be published by Bloomsbury) £2,500 
• Sarah Waters for Tipping the Velvet (Virago) £1,000

1998

• Kiran Desai for Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Faber and Faber) £10,000 
• Nick Earls for Zigzag Street (Macmillan) £8,000 
• Phil Whitaker for Eclipse of the Sun (Phoenix House) £5,000 
• Gail Anderson-Dargatz for The Cure for Death by Lighting (Virago) £1,000 
• Tobias Hill for Underground (unpublished) £1,000

1997

• Alex Garland for The Beach (Viking) £12,000 
• Josie Barnard for Poker Face (Virago) £5,000 
• Ardashir Vakil for Beach Boy (Hamish Hamilton) £5,000
• Diran Adebayo for Some Kind of Black (Virago) £1,500
• Sanjida O’Connell for Theory of Mind (Black Swan) £1,500

1996

• John Lanchester for The Debt to Pleasure (Macmillan) £8,000 
• Meera Syal for Anita and Me (Flamingo) £7,000 
• Rhidian Brook for The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (Flamingo) £5,000 
• Louis Caron Buss for The Luxury of Exile (Jonathan Cape) £5,000

1995

• Robert Newman for Dependence Day (Century) £10,000 
• Mark Behr for The Smell of Apples (Little, Brown) £8,000 
• Martina Evans for Midnight Feast (unpublished, MS accepted by Heinemann) £3,000 
• Rohit Manchanda for A Speck of Coaldust (unpublished) £1,000 
• Juliet Thomas for Hallelujah Jordan (unpublished) £1,000 
• Philippa Walshe for The Latecomer (unpublished) £1,000 
• Madeleine Wickham for The Tennis Party (Black Swan) £1,000

1994

• Colin Bateman for Divorcing Jack (proof, HarperCollins) £12,000 
• Nadeem Aslam for Season of the Rainbirds (Andre Deutsch) £10,000 
• Guy Burt for After the Hole (Transworld) £1,000 
• Frances Liardet for The Game (Macmillan) £1,000 
• Jonathan Rix for Some Hope (Andre Deutsch) £1,000

1993

• Mark Blackaby for You’ll Never be Here Again (Gollancz) £10,000 
• Andrew Cowan for Pig (Michael Joseph) £7,000 
• Simon Corrigan for Tommy Was Here (Andre Deutsch) £5,000 
• Joanna Briscoe for Mothers and Other Lovers (Phoenix) £2,000 
• Olivia Fane for Landing on Clouds (Mandarin) £2,000

1992

• Liane Jones for The Dream Stone (Heinemann) £10,000 
• Peter M Rosenburg for Kissing Through a Pane of Glass (Simon & Schuster) £5,000 
• Tibor Fischer for Under the Frog (Polygon) £3,000 
• Eugene Mullan for The Last of His Line (unpublished) £3,000 
• Edward St Aubyn for Never Mind (Heinemann) £3,000

1991

• Amit Chaudhuri for A Strange and Sublime Address (Heinemann) £10,000 
• Mark Swallow for Teaching Little Fang (Macmillan) £7,000 
• Suzannah Dunn for Quite Contrary (Sinclair Stevenson) £2,000 
• Lesley Glaister for Honour Thy Father (Secker & Warburg) £2,000 
• Nino Ricci for Lives of the Saints (W H Allen) £2,000 
• Simon Mason for The Great English Nude (Constable) £2,000

1990

• Robert McLiam for Wilson Ripley Bogle (Andre Deutsch) £16,000 
• Elizabeth Chadwick for The Wild Hunt (Michael Joseph) £3,000 
• Rosemary Cohen for No Strange Land (unpublished) £3,000 
• Nicholas Shakespeare for The Vision of Elena Silves (Collins Harvill) £3,000

1989

• Nigel Watts for The Life Game (Hodder & Stoughton) £10,000 
• William Riviere for Watercolour Sky (Hodder & Stoughton) £5,000 
• Paul Houghton for Harry’s Last Wedding (unpublished) £2,000 
• Alasdair McKee for Uncle Henry’s Last Stand (Chatto & Windus) £2,000

1988

• Alex Martin for The General Interruptor MS (Viking/Penguin) £6,500 
• Candia McWilliam for A Case of Knives (Bloomsbury) £6,500 
• Georgina Andrewes for Behind the Waterfall (Pandora Press) £2,000 
• James Friel for Left of North (Macmillan) £2,000 
• Glenn Patterson for Burning Your Own (Chatto & Windus) £2,000
• Susan Webster for Small Tales of a Town (Simon & Schuster) £2,000

1987

• James Maw for Hard Luck (Quartet Books) £8,000 
• Peter Benson for The Levels (proof, Constable) £4,500 
• Helen Flint for Return Journey (proof, Heinemann) £4,500 
• Catherine Arnold for Lost Time (Hodder & Stoughton) £1,000 
• H S Bhabra for Gestures (Michael Joseph) £1,000 
• Lucy Pinney for The Pink Stallion (proof, Hodder & Stoughton) £1,000

1986 

• Tim Parks for Tongues of Flames (Heinemann) £9,000 
• Patricia Ferguson for Family, Myths and Legends (Deutsch) £4,500 
• Philippa Blake for Mzungu’s Wife (MS, Bodley Head) £1,000 
• Matthew Kneale for Whore Banquets accepted (MS, Gollancz) £1,000 
• J F McLaughlin for The Road to Dilmun (unpublished) £1,000
• Kate Saunders for The Prodigal Father (proof, Jonathan Cape) £1,000

1985

• Susan Kay for Legacy (accepted MS Bodley Head) £12,500 
• Gary Armitage for A Season of Peace (proof, Secker & Warburg) £1,000 
• Elizabeth Ironside for A Very Private Enterprise (Hodder & Stoughton) £1,000
• Alice Mitchell for Instead of Eden (MS, W H Allen) £1,000 
• Caroline Stickland for The Standing Hills (MS, Gollancz) £1,000 
• George Schweiz for The Earth Abides For Ever (unpublished) £1,000

1984

• Ronald Frame for Winter Journey (accepted MS Bodley Head) £6,750 
• Clare Nonhebel for Cold Showers (MS, Century Hutchinson) £6,750 
• James Buchan for A Parish of Rich Women (accepted MS Hamish Hamilton) £1,000 
• Helen Harris for Playing Fields in Winter (MS, Century Hutchinson) £1,000
• Gareth Jones for The Disinherited (Gollancz) £1,000 
• Simon Rees for The Devil’s Looking Glass (MS, Methuen) £1,000