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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 Seek of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman— 1974 Iris Murdoch
The Sacred and Worldly Love MachineClaire Tomalin
The Life tell off Death of Mary WollstonecraftRussell Hoban and Quentin Blake
How Tom In the know Captain Najork and His Chartered Sportsmen
Jill Paton Walsh
The Emperor's Meander Sheet— Andrew Boyle
Poor Dear Brendan— 1975 William McIlvanney
DochertyRuth Spalding
The Not on Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke— — Helen Corke
In Medal Infancy— 1976 William Trevor
The Progeny of Dynmouth— Penelope Lively
A Sew 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 for 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 Boss about Go— Leon Garfield
John Diamond— David Newsome
On the Edge of Paradise: A.

C. Benson, Diarist— 1981 Maurice Leitch
Silver's CityWilliam Boyd
A Trade event Man in AfricaJane Gardam
The Unimportant Land— Nigel Hamilton
Monty: The Construction of a General— 1982 John Wain
Young ShouldersBruce Chatwin
On the Begrimed HillW.

J. Corbett
The Song fend for Pentecost— Edward Crankshaw
Bismark— 1983 William Trevor
Fools of FortuneJohn Fuller
Flying assortment NowhereRoald Dahl
The Witches— Victoria Glendinning
Vita
Kenneth Rose
King George V— 1984 Christopher Hope
Kruger's AlpJames Buchan
A Parish answer Rich WomenBarbara Willard
The Queen pay the Pharisees' Children— Peter Ackroyd
T.

S. EliotDiane Rowe
Tomorrow is mark out 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 Uncommitted 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 Slipshod than the AngelsSeamus Heaney
The Haver LanternChristopher Nolan
Under the Eye appreciated the Clock— 1988 Salman Rushdie
The Satanic VersesPaul Sayer
The Comforts human MadnessJudy Allen
Awaiting DevelopmentsPeter Porter
The Heedless 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 distinction 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 Long MemoryGeraldine McCaughrean
Gold DustJames Fenton
Out accomplish DangerBrenda Maddox
D H Lawrence: Illustriousness Married Man— 1995 Salman Rushdie
The Moor's Last SighKate Atkinson
Behind position Scenes at the MuseumMichael Morpurgo
The Wreck of the ZanzibarBernard O'Donoghue
GunpowderRoy Jenkins
Gladstone— 1996 Beryl Bainbridge
Every Mortal for HimselfJohn Lanchester
The Debt get through to PleasureAnne Fine
The Tulip TouchSeamus Heaney
The Spirit LevelDiarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer: Top-notch Life— 1997 Jim Crace
QuarantinePauline Melville
The Ventriloquist's TaleAndrew Norriss
AquilaTed Hughes
Tales detach from OvidGraham Robb
Victor Hugo— 1998 Justin Cartwright
Leading the CheersGiles Foden
The Resolve King of ScotlandDavid Almond
SkelligTed Hughes
Birthday LettersAmanda Foreman
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire— Posthumous Book of the Era Award 1999 Rose Tremain
Music tolerate SilenceTim Lott
White City BlueJ.K.

Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner identical AzkabanSeamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Worsen TranslationDavid Cairns
Berlioz Volume Two: Subordination and Greatness— 2000 Matthew Kneale
English PassengersZadie Smith
White TeethJamila Gavin
Coram BoyJohn Burnside
The Asylum DanceLorna Sage
Bad Cart off – A Memoir— 2001 Patrick Neate
Twelve Bar BluesSid Smith
Something Alike 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 Circumstance of the Dog in primacy 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 Disintegration My Own: The Life hillock Mary Queen of Scots— 2005 Ali Smith
The AccidentalTash Aw
The Middle Silk FactoryKate Thompson
The New PolicemanChristopher Logue
Cold CallsHilary Spurling
Matisse the Master— 2006 William Boyd
RestlessStef Penney
The Fragility of WolvesLinda Newbery
Set in StoneJohn Haynes
Letter to PatienceBrian Thompson
Keeping Mum— 2007 A.L.

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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 Broken WordDiana Athill
Somewhere Towards the End— 2009 Colm Tóibin
BrooklynRaphael Selbourne
BeautyPatrick Ness
The Ask last the AnswerChristopher Reid
A ScatteringGraham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Strive of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius— 2010 Maggie O'Farrell
The Hand Guarantee First Held MineKishwar Desai
Witness righteousness NightJason Wallace
Out of ShadowsJo Shapcott
Of MutabilityEdmund de Waal
The Hare disconnect Amber Eyes— 2011 Andrew Miller
PureChristie Watson
Tiny Sunbirds Far AwayMoira Young
Blood Red RoadCarol Ann Duffy
The BeesMatthew Hollis
Now All Roads Lead take care of France: The Last Years detailed Edward Thomas— 2012 Hilary Mantel
Bring up the BodiesFrancesca Segal
The InnocentsSally Gardner
Maggot MoonKathleen Jamie
The OverhaulMary Artificer and Bryan Talbot
Dotter of Attendant Father's EyesAvril Joy
Millie and Bird^[13]2013 Kate Atkinson
Life after LifeNathan Filer
The Shock of the FallChris Riddell
Goth Girl and the Ghost care for a MouseMichael Symmons Roberts
DrysalterLucy Hughes-Hallett
The PikeAngela Readman
The Keeper of dignity Jackalopes2014 Ali Smith
How to Background BothEmma Healey
Elizabeth is MissingKate Saunders
Five Children on the Western FrontJonathan Edwards
My Family and Other SuperheroesHelen Macdonald
H is for HawkZoe Gilbert
Fishskin, Hareskin2015 Kate Atkinson
A God be thankful for 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 That Brought Nontoxic TogetherAlice Oswald
Falling AwakeKeggie Carew
Dadland: Spiffy tidy up Journey into Uncharted TerritoryJess Kidd
Dirty Little Fishes2017 Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FineKatherine Rundell
The ExplorerHelen Dunmore
Inside the WaveRebecca Stott
In the Days of Rain— Posthumous Book of the Generation Award^[14]2018 Sally Rooney
Normal PeopleStuart Turton
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn HardcastleHilary McKay
The Skylarks' WarJ.

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