Nominations 2012 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Will Self |
Umbrella
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| Hilary Mantel |
Bring Up the Bodies
|
| Tan Twan Eng |
The Garden of Evening Mists
|
| Jeet Thayil |
Narcopolis
|
| Alison Moore |
The Lighthouse
|
| Deborah Levy |
Swimming Home
|
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Nominations 2011 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Julian Barnes |
The Sense of an Ending
|
| Patrick deWitt |
The Sisters Brothers
|
| Esi Edugyan |
Half Blood Blues
|
| Carol Birch |
Jamrach's Menagerie
|
| Andrew Miller |
Snowdrops
|
| Stephen Kelman |
Pigeon English
|
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Nominations 2010 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Peter Carey |
Parrot and Olivier in America
|
| Emma Donoghue |
Room
|
| Damon Galgut |
In a Strange Room
|
| Howard Jacobson |
The Finkler Question
|
| Andrea Levy |
The Long Song
|
| Tom McCarthy |
C
|
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Nominations 2009 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Hilary Mantel |
Wolf Hall
|
| A. S. Byatt |
The Children's Book
|
| J. M. Coetzee |
Summertime
|
| Adam Foulds |
The Quickening Maze
|
| Simon Mawer |
The Glass Room
|
| Sarah Waters |
The Little Stranger
|
|
Nominations 2008 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Aravind Adiga |
The White Tiger: A Novel
|
| Sebastian Barry |
The Secret Scripture
|
| Amitav Ghosh |
Sea of Poppies
|
| Linda Grant |
The Clothes On Their Backs
|
| Philip Hensher |
The Northern Clemency
|
| Steve Toltz |
A Fraction of the Whole
|
|
Nominations 2007 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Anne Enright |
The Gathering
|
| Ian McEwan |
On Chesil Beach
|
| Indra Sinha |
Animal's People
|
| Mohsin Hamid |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
|
| Lloyd Jones |
Mister Pip
|
| Nicola Barker |
Darkmans
|
|
Nominations 2006 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Hisham Matar |
In the Country of Men
|
| Kiran Desai |
The Inheritance of Loss
|
| Kate Grenville |
The Secret River
|
| Sarah Waters |
The Night Watch
|
| M. J. Hyland |
Carry Me Down
|
| Edward St Aubyn |
Mother's Milk
|
|
Nominations 2005 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Sebastian Barry |
A Long Long Way
|
| Ali Smith |
The Accidental
|
| Kazuo Ishiguro |
Never Let Me Go
|
| Julian Barnes |
Arthur & George
|
| Zadie Smith |
On Beauty
|
| John Banville |
The Sea
|
|
Nominations 2004 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Sarah Hall |
The Electric Michelangelo
|
| Gerard Woodward |
I'll Go to Bed at Noon
|
| Colm Tóibín |
The Master
|
| David Mitchell |
Cloud Atlas
|
| Alan Hollinghurst |
The Line of Beauty
|
| Achmat Dangor |
Bitter Fruit
|
|
Nominations 2003 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Clare Morrall |
Astonishing Splashes of Colour
|
| Zoë Heller |
Notes on a Scandal
|
| Monica Ali |
Brick Lane
|
| D. B. C. Pierre |
Vernon God Little
|
| Margaret Atwood |
Oryx and Crake
|
| Damon Galgut |
The Good Doctor
|
|
Nominations 2002 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tim Winton |
Dirt Music
|
| Sarah Waters |
Fingersmith
|
| Carol Shields |
Unless
|
| William Trevor |
The Story of Lucy Gault
|
| Yann Martel |
Life of Pi
|
| Rohinton Mistry |
Family Matters
|
|
Nominations 2001 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Andrew Miller |
Oxygen
|
| Ali Smith |
Hotel World
|
| Rachel Seiffert |
The Dark Room
|
| Peter Carey |
True History of the Kelly Gang
|
| Ian McEwan |
Atonement
|
| David Mitchell |
Number9Dream
|
|
Nominations 2000 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Matthew Kneale |
English Passengers
|
| Trezza Azzopardi |
The hiding place
|
| Margaret Atwood |
The Blind Assassin
|
| Brian O'Doherty |
The Deposition of Father McGreevey
|
| Michael Collins |
The Keepers of Truth
|
| Kazuo Ishiguro |
When We Were Orphans
|
|
Nominations 1999 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Colm Tóibín |
The Blackwater Lightship
|
| Ahdaf Soueif |
The Map of Love
|
| Andrew O'Hagan |
Our Fathers
|
| Anita Desai |
Fasting, Feasting
|
| J. M. Coetzee |
Disgrace
|
| Michael Frayn |
Headlong
|
|
Nominations 1998 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Patrick McCabe |
Breakfast on Pluto
|
| Magnus Mills |
The Restraint of Beasts
|
| Ian McEwan |
Amsterdam
|
| Beryl Bainbridge |
Master Georgie
|
| Julian Barnes |
England, England
|
| Martin Booth |
The Industry of Souls
|
|
Nominations 1997 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tim Parks |
Europa
|
| Jim Crace |
Quarantine
|
| Bernard MacLaverty |
Grace Notes
|
| Arundhati Roy |
The God of Small Things
|
| Mick Jackson |
The Underground Man
|
| Madeleine St John |
The Essence of the Thing
|
|
Nominations 1996 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Shena Mackay |
The Orchard on Fire
|
| Graham Swift |
Last Orders
|
| Margaret Atwood |
Alias Grace
|
| Beryl Bainbridge |
Every Man for Himself
|
| Seamus Deane |
Reading in the Dark
|
| Rohinton Mistry |
A Fine Balance
|
|
Nominations 1995 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Salman Rushdie |
The Moor's Last Sigh
|
| Justin Cartwright |
In Every Face I Meet
|
| Tim Winton |
The Riders
|
| Pat Barker |
The Ghost Road
|
| Barry Unsworth |
Morality Play
|
|
Nominations 1994 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| George Mackay Brown |
Beside the Ocean of Time
|
| James Kelman |
How Late It Was, How Late
|
| Abdulrazak Gurnah |
Paradise
|
| Romesh Gunesekera |
Reef
|
| Alan Hollinghurst |
The Folding Star
|
| Jill Paton Walsh |
Knowledge of Angels
|
|
Nominations 1993 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Caryl Phillips |
Crossing the River
|
| Michael Ignatieff |
Scar Tissue
|
| Tibor Fischer |
Under the Frog
|
| Carol Shields |
The Stone Diaries
|
| David Malouf |
Remembering Babylon
|
| Roddy Doyle |
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
|
|
Nominations 1992 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Barry Unsworth |
Sacred Hunger
|
| Ian McEwan |
Black Dogs
|
| Christopher Hope |
Serenity House
|
| Michèle Roberts |
Daughters of the House
|
| Patrick McCabe |
The Butcher Boy
|
| Michael Ondaatje |
The English Patient
|
|
Nominations 1992 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Barry Unsworth |
Sacred Hunger
|
| Ian McEwan |
Black Dogs
|
| Christopher Hope |
Serenity House
|
| Michèle Roberts |
Daughters of the House
|
| Patrick McCabe |
The Butcher Boy
|
| Michael Ondaatje |
The English Patient
|
|
Nominations 1991 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Rohinton Mistry |
Such a Long Journey
|
| Roddy Doyle |
The Van
|
| William Trevor |
Reading Turgenev
|
| Ben Okri |
The Famished Road
|
| Timothy Mo |
The Redundancy of Courage
|
| Martin Amis |
Time's Arrow
|
|
Nominations 1990 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| A. S. Byatt |
Possession: A Romance
|
| Brian Moore |
Lies of Silence
|
| John McGahern |
Amongst Women
|
| Mordecai Richler |
Solomon Gursky Was Here
|
| Penelope Fitzgerald |
The Gate of Angels
|
| Beryl Bainbridge |
An Awfully Big Adventure
|
|
Nominations 1989 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Banville |
The Book of Evidence
|
| Rose Tremain |
Restoration
|
| Margaret Atwood |
Cat's Eye
|
| Sybille Bedford |
Jigsaw
|
| Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Remains of the Day
|
| James Kelman |
A Disaffection
|
|
Nominations 1988 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Penelope Fitzgerald |
The Beginning of Spring
|
| Peter Carey |
Oscar and Lucinda
|
| David Lodge |
Nice Work
|
| Marina Warner |
The Lost Father
|
| Bruce Chatwin |
Utz
|
| Salman Rushdie |
The Satanic Verses
|
|
Nominations 1987 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Nina Bawden |
Circles of Deceit
|
| Peter Ackroyd |
Chatterton
|
| Iris Murdoch |
The Book and the Brotherhood
|
| Penelope Lively |
Moon Tiger
|
| Chinua Achebe |
Anthills of the Savannah
|
| Brian Moore |
The Colour of Blood
|
|
Nominations 1986 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Timothy Mo |
An Insular Possession
|
| Margaret Atwood |
The Handmaid's Tale
|
| Kazuo Ishiguro |
An Artist of the Floating World
|
| Robertson Davies |
What's Bred in the Bone
|
| Kingsley Amis |
The Old Devils
|
| Paul Bailey |
Gabriel's Lament
|
|
Nominations 1985 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Keri Hulme |
The Bone People
|
| Iris Murdoch |
The Good Apprentice
|
| J. L. Carr |
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
|
| Doris Lessing |
The Good Terrorist
|
| Peter Carey |
Illywhacker
|
| Jan Morris |
Last Letters from Hav
|
|
Nominations 1984 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Anita Desai |
In Custody
|
| J. G. Ballard |
Empire of the Sun
|
| Penelope Lively |
According to Mark
|
| Julian Barnes |
Flaubert's Parrot
|
| Anita Brookner |
Hotel du Lac
|
| David Lodge |
Small World: An Academic Romance
|
|
Nominations 1983 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Fuller |
Flying to Nowhere
|
| Graham Swift |
Waterland
|
| J. M. Coetzee |
Life & Times of Michael K
|
| Anita Mason |
The Illusionist
|
| Salman Rushdie |
Shame
|
| Malcolm Bradbury |
Rates of Exchange
|
|
Nominations 1982 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Boyd |
An Ice-Cream War
|
| Lawrence Durrell |
Constance or Solitary Practices
|
| John Arden |
Silence Among the Weapons
|
| Thomas Keneally |
Schindler's Ark
|
| Alice Thomas Ellis |
The 27th Kingdom
|
| Timothy Mo |
Sour Sweet
|
|
Nominations 1981 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Anne Schlee |
Rhine Journey
|
| Molly Keane |
Good Behaviour
|
| Muriel Spark |
Loitering with Intent
|
| Salman Rushdie |
Midnight's Children
|
| Doris Lessing |
The Sirian Experiments
|
| D. M. Thomas |
The White Hotel
|
| Ian McEwan |
The Comfort of Strangers
|
|
Nominations 1980 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Golding |
Rites of Passage
|
| Anthony Burgess |
Earthly Powers
|
| Julia O'Faolain |
No Country for Young Men
|
| J. L. Carr |
A Month in the Country
|
| Alice Munro |
Who Do You Think You Are?
|
| Anita Desai |
Clear Light of Day
|
| Barry Unsworth |
Pascali's Island
|
|
Nominations 1979 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thomas Keneally |
Confederates
|
| Fay Weldon |
Praxis
|
| Julian Rathbone |
Joseph
|
| Penelope Fitzgerald |
Offshore
|
| V.S. Naipaul |
A Bend in the River
|
|
Nominations 1978 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| André Brink |
Rumours of Rain
|
| Bernice Rubens |
A Five-Year Sentence
|
| Penelope Fitzgerald |
The Bookshop
|
| Iris Murdoch |
The Sea, the Sea
|
| Jane Gardam |
God on the Rocks
|
| Kingsley Amis |
Jake's Thing
|
|
Nominations 1977 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paul Scott |
Staying On
|
| Jennifer Johnston |
Shadows on our Skin
|
| Paul Bailey |
Peter Smart's Confessions
|
| Penelope Lively |
The Road to Lichfield
|
| Barbara Pym |
Quartet in Autumn
|
| Lady Caroline Blackwood |
Great Granny Webster
|
|
Nominations 1976 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Brian Moore |
The Doctor's Wife
|
| R. C. Hutchinson |
Rising
|
| William Trevor |
The Children of Dynmouth
|
| David Storey |
Saville
|
| Julian Rathbone |
King Fisher Lives
|
| André Brink |
An Instant in the Wind
|
|
Nominations 1975 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thomas Keneally |
Gossip from the Forest
|
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Heat and Dust
|
|
Nominations 1974 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| C. P. Snow |
In Their Wisdom
|
| Nadine Gordimer |
The Conservationist
|
| Kingsley Amis |
Ending Up
|
| Beryl Bainbridge |
The Bottle Factory Outing
|
| Stanley Middleton |
Holiday
|
|
Nominations 1974 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| C. P. Snow |
In Their Wisdom
|
| Nadine Gordimer |
The Conservationist
|
| Kingsley Amis |
Ending Up
|
| Beryl Bainbridge |
The Bottle Factory Outing
|
| Stanley Middleton |
Holiday
|
|
Nominations 1973 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| J. G. Farrell |
The Siege of Krishnapur
|
| Elizabeth Mavor |
The Green Equinox
|
| Beryl Bainbridge |
The Dressmaker
|
| Iris Murdoch |
The Black Prince
|
|
Nominations 1972 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Susan Hill |
The Bird of Night
|
| Thomas Keneally |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
|
| David Storey |
Pasmore
|
| John Berger |
G.
|
|
Nominations 1971 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Derek Robinson |
Goshawk Squadron
|
| Thomas Kilroy |
The Big Chapel
|
| Doris Lessing |
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
|
| V.S. Naipaul |
In a Free State
|
| Mordecai Richler |
St. Urbain's Horseman
|
| Elizabeth Taylor |
Mrs. Palfrey at the Clarmemont
|
|
Nominations 1970 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| T. W. Wheeler |
The Conjunction
|
| William Trevor |
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
|
| Elizabeth Bowen |
Eva Trout
|
| Bernice Rubens |
The Elected Member
|
| Iris Murdoch |
Bruno's Dream
|
| A. L. Barker |
John Brown's Body
|
|
Nominations 1969 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gordon Williams |
From Scenes like These
|
| Iris Murdoch |
The Nice and the Good
|
| P. H. Newby |
Something to Answer For
|
| Nicholas Mosley |
Impossible Object
|
| Barry England |
Figures in a Landscape
|
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