Previous Winners
2010
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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
2010 Winner
The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man’s search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America.
Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina he remakes himself in America’s hopeful image. But political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach – the lacuna – between truth and public presumption. A gripping story of identity, loyalty and the devastating power of accusations to destroy innocent people. The Lacuna is as deep and rich as the New World.2010 Judges
- Daisy Goodwin
- Alexandra Shulman
- Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE
- Michèle Roberts
- Miranda Sawyer