Year
|
Award
|
Notes & Refs
|
Novel
|
First novel
|
Children's book
|
Poetry
|
Biography
|
Short story
|
1971
|
Gerda Charles
The Destiny Waltz
|
?
|
?
|
Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns
|
Michael Meyer
Henrik Ibsen
|
?
|
|
1972
|
Susan Hill
The Bird of Night
|
?
|
Rumer Godden
The Diddakoi
|
?
|
James Pope-Hennessy
Anthony Trollope
|
?
|
|
1973
|
Shiva Naipaul
The Chip-Chip Gatherers
|
?
|
Alan Aldridge
and
William Plomer
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
|
?
|
John Wilson
CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
|
?
|
|
1974
|
Iris Murdoch
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
|
Claire Tomalin
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
|
Russell Hoban
and
Quentin Blake
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
Jill Paton Walsh
The Emperor's Winding Sheet
|
?
|
Andrew Boyle
Poor Dear Brendan
|
?
|
|
1975
|
William McIlvanney
Docherty
|
Ruth Spalding
The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke
|
?
|
?
|
Helen Corke
In Our Infancy
|
?
|
|
1976
|
William Trevor
The Children of Dynmouth
|
?
|
Penelope Lively
A Stitch in Time
|
?
|
Winifred Gerin
Elizabeth Gaskell
|
?
|
|
1977
|
Beryl Bainbridge
Injury Time
|
?
|
Shelagh Macdonald
No End to Yesterday
|
?
|
Nigel Nicolson
Mary Curzon
|
?
|
|
1978
|
Paul Theroux
Picture Palace
|
?
|
Philippa Pearce
The Battle of Bubble & Squeak
|
?
|
John Grigg
Lloyd George: The People's Champion
|
?
|
|
1979
|
Jennifer Johnston
The Old Jest
|
?
|
Peter Dickinson
Tulku
|
?
|
Penelope Mortimer
About Time
|
?
|
|
1980
|
David Lodge
How Far Can You Go
|
?
|
Leon Garfield
John Diamond
|
?
|
David Newsome
On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist
|
?
|
|
1981
|
Maurice Leitch
Silver's City
|
William Boyd
A Good Man in Africa
|
Jane Gardam
The Hollow Land
|
?
|
Nigel Hamilton
Monty: The Making of a General
|
?
|
|
1982
|
John Wain
Young Shoulders
|
Bruce Chatwin
On the Black Hill
|
W. J. Corbett
The Song of Pentecost
|
?
|
Edward Crankshaw
Bismark
|
?
|
|
1983
|
William Trevor
Fools of Fortune
|
John Fuller
Flying to Nowhere
|
Roald Dahl
The Witches
|
?
|
Victoria Glendinning
Vita
Kenneth Rose
King George V
|
?
|
|
1984
|
Christopher Hope
Kruger's Alp
|
James Buchan
A Parish of Rich Women
|
Barbara Willard
The Queen of the Pharisees' Children
|
?
|
Peter Ackroyd
T. S. Eliot
|
Diane Rowe
Tomorrow is our Permanent Address
|
|
1985
|
Peter Ackroyd
Hawksmoor
|
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
|
Janni Howker
The Nature of the Beast
|
Douglas Dunn
Elegies
|
Ben Pimlott
Hugh Dalton
|
?
|
|
1986
|
Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World
|
Jim Crace
Continent
|
Andrew Taylor
The Coal House
|
Peter Reading
Stet
|
Richard Mabey
Gilbert White
|
?
|
|
1987
|
Ian McEwan
The Child in Time
|
Francis Wyndham
The Other Garden
|
Geraldine McCaughrean
A Little Lower than the Angels
|
Seamus Heaney
The Haw Lantern
|
Christopher Nolan
Under the Eye of the Clock
|
?
|
|
1988
|
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
|
Paul Sayer
The Comforts of Madness
|
Judy Allen
Awaiting Developments
|
Peter Porter
The Automatic Oracle
|
A. N. Wilson
Tolstoy
|
?
|
|
1989
|
Lindsay Clarke
The Chymical Wedding
|
James Hamilton-Paterson
Gerontius
|
Hugh Scott
Why Weeps the Brogan
|
Michael Donaghy
Shibboleth
|
Richard Holmes
Coleridge: Early Visions
|
?
|
|
1990
|
Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful Monsters
|
Hanif Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia
|
Peter Dickinson
AK
|
Paul Durcan
Daddy, Daddy
|
Ann Thwaite
AA Milne ? His Life
|
?
|
|
1991
|
Jane Gardam
The Queen of the Tambourine
|
Gordon Burn
Alma Cogan
|
Diana Hendry
Harvey Angell
|
Michael Longley
Gorse Fires
|
John Richardson
A Life of Picasso
|
?
|
|
1992
|
Alasdair Gray
Poor Things
|
Jeff Torrington
Swing Hammer Swing!
|
Gillian Cross
The Great Elephant Chase
|
Tony Harrison
The Gaze of the Gorgon
|
Victoria Glendinning
Trollope
|
?
|
|
1993
|
Joan Brady
Theory of War
|
Rachel Cusk
Saving Agnes
|
Anne Fine
Flour Babies
|
Carol Ann Duffy
Mean Time
|
Andrew Motion
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
|
?
|
|
1994
|
William Trevor
Felicia's Journey
|
Fred D'Aguiar
The Longest Memory
|
Geraldine McCaughrean
Gold Dust
|
James Fenton
Out of Danger
|
Brenda Maddox
D H Lawrence: The Married Man
|
?
|
|
1995
|
Salman Rushdie
The Moor's Last Sigh
|
Kate Atkinson
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
|
Michael Morpurgo
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
|
Bernard O'Donoghue
Gunpowder
|
Roy Jenkins
Gladstone
|
?
|
|
1996
|
Beryl Bainbridge
Every Man for Himself
|
John Lanchester
The Debt to Pleasure
|
Anne Fine
The Tulip Touch
|
Seamus Heaney
The Spirit Level
|
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer: A Life
|
?
|
|
1997
|
Jim Crace
Quarantine
|
Pauline Melville
The Ventriloquist's Tale
|
Andrew Norriss
Aquila
|
Ted Hughes
Tales from Ovid
|
Graham Robb
Victor Hugo
|
?
|
|
1998
|
Justin Cartwright
Leading the Cheers
|
Giles Foden
The Last King of Scotland
|
David Almond
Skellig
|
Ted Hughes
Birthday Letters
|
Amanda Foreman
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
|
?
|
Posthumous Book of the Year Award
|
1999
|
Rose Tremain
Music and Silence
|
Tim Lott
White City Blue
|
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
|
Seamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
|
David Cairns
Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness
|
?
|
|
2000
|
Matthew Kneale
English Passengers
|
Zadie Smith
White Teeth
|
Jamila Gavin
Coram Boy
|
John Burnside
The Asylum Dance
|
Lorna Sage
Bad Blood
? A Memoir
|
?
|
|
2001
|
Patrick Neate
Twelve Bar Blues
|
Sid Smith
Something Like A House
|
Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass
|
Selima Hill
Bunny
|
Diana Souhami
Selkirk's Island
|
?
|
|
2002
|
Michael Frayn
Spies
|
Norman Lebrecht
The Song of Names
|
Hilary McKay
Saffy's Angel
|
Paul Farley
The Ice Age
|
Claire Tomalin
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
|
?
|
|
2003
|
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
|
DBC Pierre
Vernon God Little
|
David Almond
The Fire-Eaters
|
Don Paterson
Landing Light (poetry collection)
|
DJ Taylor
Orwell: The Life
|
?
|
|
2004
|
Andrea Levy
Small Island
|
Susan Fletcher
Eve Green
|
Geraldine McCaughrean
Not the End of the World
|
Michael Symmons Roberts
Corpus
|
John Guy
My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
|
?
|
|
2005
|
Ali Smith
The Accidental
|
Tash Aw
The Harmony Silk Factory
|
Kate Thompson
The New Policeman
|
Christopher Logue
Cold Calls
|
Hilary Spurling
Matisse the Master
|
?
|
|
2006
|
William Boyd
Restless
|
Stef Penney
The Tenderness of Wolves
|
Linda Newbery
Set in Stone
|
John Haynes
Letter to Patience
|
Brian Thompson
Keeping Mum
|
?
|
|
2007
|
A.L. Kennedy
Day
|
Catherine O'Flynn
What Was Lost
|
Ann Kelley
The Bower Bird
|
Jean Sprackland
Tilt
|
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Young Stalin
|
?
|
|
2008
|
Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture
|
Sadie Jones
The Outcast
|
Michelle Magorian
Just Henry
|
Adam Foulds
The Broken Word
|
Diana Athill
Somewhere Towards the End
|
?
|
|
2009
|
Colm Toibin
Brooklyn
|
Raphael Selbourne
Beauty
|
Patrick Ness
The Ask and the Answer
|
Christopher Reid
A Scattering
|
Graham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
|
?
|
|
2010
|
Maggie O'Farrell
The Hand That First Held Mine
|
Kishwar Desai
Witness the Night
|
Jason Wallace
Out of Shadows
|
Jo Shapcott
Of Mutability
|
Edmund de Waal
The Hare with Amber Eyes
|
?
|
|
2011
|
Andrew Miller
Pure
|
Christie Watson
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
|
Moira Young
Blood Red Road
|
Carol Ann Duffy
The Bees
|
Matthew Hollis
Now All Roads Lead to France
: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
|
?
|
|
2012
|
Hilary Mantel
Bring up the Bodies
|
Francesca Segal
The Innocents
|
Sally Gardner
Maggot Moon
|
Kathleen Jamie
The Overhaul
|
Mary Talbot
and
Bryan Talbot
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
|
Avril Joy
Millie and Bird
|
[13]
|
2013
|
Kate Atkinson
Life after Life
|
Nathan Filer
The Shock of the Fall
|
Chris Riddell
Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse
|
Michael Symmons Roberts
Drysalter
|
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Pike
|
Angela Readman
The Keeper of the Jackalopes
|
|
2014
|
Ali Smith
How to Be Both
|
Emma Healey
Elizabeth is Missing
|
Kate Saunders
Five Children on the Western Front
|
Jonathan Edwards
My Family and Other Superheroes
|
Helen Macdonald
H is for Hawk
|
Zoe Gilbert
Fishskin, Hareskin
|
|
2015
|
Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins
|
Andrew Michael Hurley
The Loney
|
Frances Hardinge
The Lie Tree
|
Don Paterson
40 Sonnets
|
Andrea Wulf
The Invention of Nature
|
Danny Murphy
Rogey
|
|
2016
|
Sebastian Barry
Days Without End
|
Francis Spufford
Golden Hill
|
Brian Conaghan
The Bombs That Brought Us Together
|
Alice Oswald
Falling Awake
|
Keggie Carew
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory
|
Jess Kidd
Dirty Little Fishes
|
|
2017
|
Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13
|
Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
|
Katherine Rundell
The Explorer
|
Helen Dunmore
Inside the Wave
|
Rebecca Stott
In the Days of Rain
|
?
|
Posthumous Book of the Year Award
[14]
|
2018
|
Sally Rooney
Normal People
|
Stuart Turton
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
|
Hilary McKay
The Skylarks' War
|
J. O. Morgan
Assurances
|
Bart van Es
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
|
?
|
[15]
|
2019
|
Jonathan Coe
Middle England
|
Sara Collins
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
|
Jasbinder Bilan
Asha & the Spirit Bird
|
Mary Jean Chan
Fleche
|
Jack Fairweather
The Volunteer
[16]
|
?
|
[17]
|
2020
|
Monique Roffey
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story
|
Ingrid Persaud
Love After Love
|
Natasha Farrant
Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
|
Eavan Boland
The Historians
|
Lee Lawrence
The Louder I Will Sing
|
Tessa Sheridan
The Person Who Serves, Serves Again
|
[18]
|
2021
|
Claire Fuller
,
Unsettled Ground
|
Caleb Azumah Nelson
,
Open Water
|
Manjeet Mann
,
The Crossing
|
Hannah Lowe
,
The Kids
|
John Preston
,
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
|
?
|
[19]
|
Year
|
Novel
|
First novel
|
Children's book
|
Poetry
|
Biography
|
Short story
|
Notes & Refs
|
"?" not awarded this year
|