Previous Winners
2008
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2019
An American Marriage
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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
2008 Winner
The Road Home
Rose Tremain
Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet.Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British: their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity.
London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging...2008 Judges
- Kirsty Lang
- Bel Mooney
- Lisa Allardice
- Philippa Gregory