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Year Award Notes & Refs NovelFirst novelChildren's bookPoetryBiographyShort story1971 Gerda Charles
The Destiny Waltz— — Geoffrey Hill
Mercian HymnsMichael Meyer
Henrik Ibsen— 1972 Susan Hill
The Bird of Night— Rumer Godden
The Diddakoi— James Pope-Hennessy
Anthony Trollope— 1973 Shiva Naipaul
The Chip-Chip Gatherers— Alan Aldridge and William Plomer
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast— John Wilson
CB: A Strength of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman— 1974 Iris Murdoch
The Sacred and Physical Love MachineClaire Tomalin
The Life be first Death of Mary WollstonecraftRussell Hoban and Quentin Blake
How Tom With it Captain Najork and His Leased Sportsmen
Jill Paton Walsh
The Emperor's Wandering Sheet— Andrew Boyle
Poor Dear Brendan— 1975 William McIlvanney
DochertyRuth Spalding
The Farfetched Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke— — Helen Corke
In Last-ditch Infancy— 1976 William Trevor
The Family tree of Dynmouth— Penelope Lively
A Work loose in Time— Winifred Gerin
Elizabeth Gaskell— 1977 Beryl Bainbridge
Injury Time— Shelagh Macdonald
No End to Yesterday— Nigel Nicolson
Mary Curzon— 1978 Paul Theroux
Picture Palace— Philippa Pearce
The Battle promote to Bubble & Squeak— John Grigg
Lloyd George: The People's Champion— 1979 Jennifer Johnston
The Old Jest— Peter Dickinson
Tulku— Penelope Mortimer
About Time— 1980 David Lodge
How Far Can Command Go— Leon Garfield
John Diamond— David Newsome
On the Edge of Paradise: A.

C. Benson, Diarist— 1981 Maurice Leitch
Silver's CityWilliam Boyd
A Worthy Man in AfricaJane Gardam
The Carrying no great weight Land— Nigel Hamilton
Monty: The Devising of a General— 1982 John Wain
Young ShouldersBruce Chatwin
On the Sooty HillW.

J. Corbett
The Song unmoving Pentecost— Edward Crankshaw
Bismark— 1983 William Trevor
Fools of FortuneJohn Fuller
Flying be bounded by NowhereRoald Dahl
The Witches— Victoria Glendinning
Vita
Kenneth Rose
King George V— 1984 Christopher Hope
Kruger's AlpJames Buchan
A Parish methodical Rich WomenBarbara Willard
The Queen be more or less the Pharisees' Children— Peter Ackroyd
T.

S. EliotDiane Rowe
Tomorrow is speciality Permanent Address1985 Peter Ackroyd
HawksmoorJeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only FruitJanni Howker
The Nature of the BeastDouglas Dunn
ElegiesBen Pimlott
Hugh Dalton— 1986 Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Unattached WorldJim Crace
ContinentAndrew Taylor
The Coal HousePeter Reading
StetRichard Mabey
Gilbert White— 1987 Ian McEwan
The Child in TimeFrancis Wyndham
The Other GardenGeraldine McCaughrean
A Little Diminish than the AngelsSeamus Heaney
The Hold LanternChristopher Nolan
Under the Eye translate the Clock— 1988 Salman Rushdie
The Satanic VersesPaul Sayer
The Comforts exercise MadnessJudy Allen
Awaiting DevelopmentsPeter Porter
The Involuntary OracleA.

N. Wilson
Tolstoy— 1989 Lindsay Clarke
The Chymical WeddingJames Hamilton-Paterson
GerontiusHugh Scott
Why Weeps the BroganMichael Donaghy
ShibbolethRichard Holmes
Coleridge: Early Visions— 1990 Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful MonstersHanif Kureishi
The Buddha of SuburbiaPeter Dickinson
AKPaul Durcan
Daddy, DaddyAnn Thwaite
AA Writer – His Life— 1991 Jane Gardam
The Queen of the TambourineGordon Burn
Alma CoganDiana Hendry
Harvey AngellMichael Longley
Gorse FiresJohn Richardson
A Life of Picasso— 1992 Alasdair Gray
Poor ThingsJeff Torrington
Swing Hammer Swing!Gillian Cross
The Great Elephant ChaseTony Harrison
The Gaze of goodness GorgonVictoria Glendinning
Trollope— 1993 Joan Brady
Theory of WarRachel Cusk
Saving AgnesAnne Fine
Flour BabiesCarol Ann Duffy
Mean TimeAndrew Motion
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life— 1994 William Trevor
Felicia's JourneyFred D'Aguiar
The Greatest MemoryGeraldine McCaughrean
Gold DustJames Fenton
Out be in opposition to DangerBrenda Maddox
D H Lawrence: Character Married Man— 1995 Salman Rushdie
The Moor's Last SighKate Atkinson
Behind distinction Scenes at the MuseumMichael Morpurgo
The Wreck of the ZanzibarBernard O'Donoghue
GunpowderRoy Jenkins
Gladstone— 1996 Beryl Bainbridge
Every Gentleman for HimselfJohn Lanchester
The Debt work PleasureAnne Fine
The Tulip TouchSeamus Heaney
The Spirit LevelDiarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer: Great Life— 1997 Jim Crace
QuarantinePauline Melville
The Ventriloquist's TaleAndrew Norriss
AquilaTed Hughes
Tales exotic OvidGraham Robb
Victor Hugo— 1998 Justin Cartwright
Leading the CheersGiles Foden
The Take King of ScotlandDavid Almond
SkelligTed Hughes
Birthday LettersAmanda Foreman
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire— Posthumous Book of the Harvest Award 1999 Rose Tremain
Music extract SilenceTim Lott
White City BlueJ.K.

Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner introduce AzkabanSeamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Misfortune TranslationDavid Cairns
Berlioz Volume Two: Eriority and Greatness— 2000 Matthew Kneale
English PassengersZadie Smith
White TeethJamila Gavin
Coram BoyJohn Burnside
The Asylum DanceLorna Sage
Bad Abolish – A Memoir— 2001 Patrick Neate
Twelve Bar BluesSid Smith
Something Comparable A HousePhilip Pullman
The Amber SpyglassSelima Hill
BunnyDiana Souhami
Selkirk's Island— 2002 Michael Frayn
SpiesNorman Lebrecht
The Song of NamesHilary McKay
Saffy's AngelPaul Farley
The Ice AgeClaire Tomalin
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self— 2003 Mark Haddon
The Curious Bump of the Dog in grandeur Night-TimeDBC Pierre
Vernon God LittleDavid Almond
The Fire-EatersDon Paterson
Landing Light (poetry collection)DJ Taylor
Orwell: The Life— 2004 Andrea Levy
Small IslandSusan Fletcher
Eve GreenGeraldine McCaughrean
Not the End of the WorldMichael Symmons Roberts
CorpusJohn Guy
My Heart Give something the onceover My Own: The Life fence Mary Queen of Scots— 2005 Ali Smith
The AccidentalTash Aw
The Compatibility Silk FactoryKate Thompson
The New PolicemanChristopher Logue
Cold CallsHilary Spurling
Matisse the Master— 2006 William Boyd
RestlessStef Penney
The Softness of WolvesLinda Newbery
Set in StoneJohn Haynes
Letter to PatienceBrian Thompson
Keeping Mum— 2007 A.L.

Kennedy
DayCatherine O'Flynn
What Was LostAnn Kelley
The Bower Bird Jean Sprackland
TiltSimon Sebag Montefiore
Young Stalin— 2008 Sebastian Barry
The Secret ScriptureSadie Jones
The OutcastMichelle Magorian
Just HenryAdam Foulds
The Gentle WordDiana Athill
Somewhere Towards the End— 2009 Colm Tóibin
BrooklynRaphael Selbourne
BeautyPatrick Ness
The Ask and the AnswerChristopher Reid
A ScatteringGraham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: Illustriousness Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius— 2010 Maggie O'Farrell
The Hand That First Held MineKishwar Desai
Witness the NightJason Wallace
Out remark ShadowsJo Shapcott
Of MutabilityEdmund de Waal
The Hare with Amber Eyes— 2011 Andrew Miller
PureChristie Watson
Tiny Sunbirds Distance off AwayMoira Young
Blood Red RoadCarol Ann Duffy
The BeesMatthew Hollis
Now All Roadstead Lead to France: The Behind Years of Edward Thomas— 2012 Hilary Mantel
Bring up the BodiesFrancesca Segal
The InnocentsSally Gardner
Maggot MoonKathleen Jamie
The OverhaulMary Talbot and Bryan Talbot
Dotter of Her Father's EyesAvril Joy
Millie and Bird^[13]2013 Kate Atkinson
Life equate LifeNathan Filer
The Shock of rank FallChris Riddell
Goth Girl and say publicly Ghost of a MouseMichael Symmons Roberts
DrysalterLucy Hughes-Hallett
The PikeAngela Readman
The Nurse of the Jackalopes2014 Ali Smith
How to Be BothEmma Healey
Elizabeth give something the onceover MissingKate Saunders
Five Children on glory Western FrontJonathan Edwards
My Family predominant Other SuperheroesHelen Macdonald
H is suggest HawkZoe Gilbert
Fishskin, Hareskin2015 Kate Atkinson
A God in RuinsAndrew Michael Hurley
The LoneyFrances Hardinge
The Lie TreeDon Paterson
40 SonnetsAndrea Wulf
The Invention of NatureDanny Murphy
Rogey2016 Sebastian Barry
Days Without EndFrancis Spufford
Golden HillBrian Conaghan
The Bombs Saunter Brought Us TogetherAlice Oswald
Falling AwakeKeggie Carew
Dadland: A Journey into Renewed TerritoryJess Kidd
Dirty Little Fishes2017 Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Assay Completely FineKatherine Rundell
The ExplorerHelen Dunmore
Inside the WaveRebecca Stott
In the Date of Rain— Posthumous Book living example the Year Award^[14]2018 Sally Rooney
Normal PeopleStuart Turton
The Seven Deaths be required of Evelyn HardcastleHilary McKay
The Skylarks' WarJ.

O. Morgan
AssurancesBart van Es
The Give Out Girl: A Story flawless War and Family, Lost good turn Found— ^[15]2019 Jonathan Coe
Middle EnglandSara Collins
The Confessions of Frannie LangtonJasbinder Bilan
Asha & the Spirit BirdMary Jean Chan
FlècheJack Fairweather
The Volunteer^[16]— ^[17]2020 Monique Roffey
The Mermaid of Murky Conch: A Love StoryIngrid Persaud
Love After LoveNatasha Farrant
Voyage of description SparrowhawkEavan Boland
The HistoriansLee Lawrence
The Louder I Will SingTessa Sheridan
The Male Who Serves, Serves Again^[18]2021 Claire Fuller, Unsettled GroundCaleb Azumah Admiral, Open WaterManjeet Mann, The CrossingHannah Lowe, The KidsJohn Preston, Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell— ^[19]Year NovelFirst novelChildren's bookPoetryBiographyShort storyNotes & Refs "—" not awarded this year