Previous Winners
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2018
Home Fire
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2017
The Power
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2016
The Glorious Heresies
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2015
How to be Both
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2014
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
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2013
May We Be Forgiven
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2012
The Song of Achilles
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2011
The Tiger's Wife
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2010
The Lacuna
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2009
Home
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2008
The Road Home
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2007
Half of a Yellow Sun
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2006
On Beauty
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2005
We Need to Talk About Kevin
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2004
Small Island
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2003
Property
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2002
Bel Canto
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2001
The Idea of Perfection
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2000
When I Lived in Modern Times
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1999
A Crime in the Neighborhood
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1998
Larry’s Party
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1997
Fugitive Pieces
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1996
A Spell of Winter
Featured Podcasts
Listen to the Chair of Judges from each year discussing their winning book on BBC Woman's Hour
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The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
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Shami Chakrabarti on How to be Both
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Muriel Gray on Half Of A Yellow Sun
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Miranda Richardson on May We Be Forgiven
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Martha Kearney on On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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Kirsty Lang on The Road Home by Rose Tremain
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Helen Fraser on A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing
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Fi Glover on Home by Marilynne Robinson