PREVIOUS WINNERS
2025 Flesh by David Szalay
2024 Orbital by Samantha Harvey
2023 Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
2021 The Promise by Damon Galgut
2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
2019 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo + The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
2018 Milkman by Anna Burns
2017 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
2016 The Sellout by Paul Beatty
2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
2013 The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
2012 Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2011 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2010 The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
2009 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright
2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2005 The Sea by John Banville
2004 The Line of Beauty by Allan Hollinghurst
2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
1998 Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift
1995 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
1994 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
1992 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje + Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
1991 The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1990 Possession by A. S. Byatt
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
1988 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
1987 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1986 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme
1984 Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
1983 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
1982 Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
1981 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding
1979 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
1978 The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
1977 Staying On by Paul Scott
1976 Saville by David Storey
1975 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974 Holiday by Stanley Middleton + The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
1972 G. by John Berger
1971 In a Free State (short story) by V. S. Naipaul
1970 The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens + Troubles by J. G. Farrell
1969 Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby